[mythtv-users] DTV: It Has Begun
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Sep 9 02:49:51 UTC 2008
On 09/08/2008 10:32 PM, Jason Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:26 PM, David Brodbeck 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.
>>
But, it would be very easy to create a receiver that ignores all video
streams and simply plays the audio streams.
>> 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.
Not to mention, downscaling is significantly easier than decoding the
HDTV-resolution MPEG-2, so you don't even need a high-res display.
Mike
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