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Old 08-14-2008, 08:30 PM
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I spent this afternoon at a nearby College campus where my only access to the Internet was a friend's smartphone with TV reception. I don't understand exactly how it works but looks like it's an additional subscription service provided by the carrier.

However my question is related to the quality of TV shows broadcast to cell phones over 3G and other high speed wireless connections, is this already a digital signal?
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Wow, I've heard about this, though I haven't done much reading on it.

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Technically, there are currently two main ways of delivering mobile TV. The first is via a two-way cellular network and the second is through a one-way dedicated broadcast network. These include digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H), digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB), TDtv (based on TD-CDMA technology from [IPWireless]), 1seg (based on Japan's ISDB-T), DAB and MediaFLO.
So it looks like technically you can call it digital television, though the resolution/picture quality is unlike what you would receive on a typical television set.

Found a news article on google and it looks like higher quality resolution displays on cell phones starting to become available though.

And I thought my blackberry was cool.
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it'll probably be on your Blackberry soon
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it'll probably be on your Blackberry soon
I'm just waiting for Verizon to make my phone work without any problems??? I seriously can't go a week without having atleast one dropped call.
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That's really cool, I haven't heard of that before. I would think that would still be considered digital tv because it's not coming through analogue with atenae.
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