[mythtv-users] DTV: It Has Begun

[Jason Sullivan]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:26 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> Jason Sullivan wrote:
>> This is the part I don't get, because a big part of public safety is
>> being able to get information when the power goes out.  Are there any
>> OTA digital portable TVs?
>
> I haven't seen any.  Portable radios that could tune the audio portion
> of VHF TV stations used to be a good standby source of information
> during natural disasters, too, and those will no longer work.

Also true.  Maybe I'll dig up the old AM/Shortwave.

> Aside from cost issues, digital portable TVs represent an interesting
> marketing problem.  The public has been conditioned to think that
> digital TV means HDTV.  But supporting 1080i on a 10" diagonal display
> would make no sense whatsoever.

Maybe not aesthetic sense, but surely it's technically possible.  The
displays with the resolution are there.

-- 
Jason Sullivan
jason0x21 at gmail.com