Jim1348

EscapeVelocity

Is it a cell phone service, using cell towers to transfer data?

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Jim1348

No, actually Flo TV content is transmitted over UHF channel 55, which was freed up after the DTV transition earlier this year. Service is transmitted digitally, however, which enables FLO TV to charge for access to channels.

Piggie

I guess it's all good if you consider taking a national resource that regular OTA could have used and needs now badly sold to the highest bidder so those that want to spend the money can have these channels, then it's ok.

From my perspective it's a total sell out of what used to be public property just like selling a national park to Disney Corporation to make an amusement park.

I think it's a very bad idea to move more and more in this direction as a society, where those with are more important than those without.

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Trip

RabbitEars.Info

List of MediaFLO transmitters.

- Trip

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joedunn09

From the website, "For a limited time, purchase the FLO TV™ Personal Television for $249.99 and enjoy 6 months of prepaid subscription service.* Service lineup includes Adult Swim, CBS Mobile, CNBC, Comedy Central, FLO TV Channel, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, MTV, NBC 2Go, and Nickelodeon."
I don't know about you, but I don't think it's worth it...On top the $250 upfront, you pay at least $15/mo. I mean between regular cable, internet and your regular cell phone, how can you afford this? ANd more importantly, why would you! HAHA! Seriously though, it would need to be cheaper and have better stations. ideally it would let you pick the individual stations you wanted a la carte...

Piggie

Don't forget either if you think OTA is compressed, remember they are putting all that programming on one TV channel. Even with MPEG-4, it going to be very compressed or a very small screen.

I suspect many of the companies jumping on the 700 MHz band will be gone in a few years. When they opened up the 1900 MHz band to cell phones, most of the original companies are gone rather brought out, save Sprint, Verizon. Even the old ATT won some of those channels, but really they don't exist anymore.

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TVTom51

I'm trying to imagine what ATSC-m/h is going to look like on a 19" computer screen when the USB tuners come out and I'm thinking that it's not going to look too good.