The future of TV on your iPhone is ATSC Mobile DTV

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@oakie

Typical.

Why go this route when you can buy one chip that can recieve all digital TV standards? Instead of recieving "special" transmissions for mobile devices just recieve the standard Digital TV broadcasts. With location aware devices the reciever could be set up automatically for the devices location.

Now complete TV reception hardware might be hard to squeeze into a iPhone but tablets are no problem at all. There is also a good possiblility of splitting reception into partial processing on the main CPU to lower chip count.

In a nut shell I see this as waste of time. If you can't squeeze standard digital into a phone today you will be able to soon. It is just the March of transistor density moving forward.


Dave

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Can't see Apple including this-as it'd be limited to the US-where ATSC is used.

I could see however, Apple adding mobile ATSC and some form of DVB-so it could used in Europe, Australia,etc.

I can't see many reasons to include an ATSC tuner. For starters, the transmission power on the vertical polarization is a fraction of total power, simply not enough to provide reliable service. Second, ATSC has superior video lock times when tuning and better performance with impulse noise, but it's absolutely horrible when dealing with multipath.
I think mobile receivers might encounter a bit of multipath.

I'm betting all those stations that opted for VHF channel assignments are coming to realize that they should have gone UHF. Do you think an antenna in an iPhone or iPod is going to perform very well on 174 MHz? No way.

Of course, then there's local TV programming. Who really wants to watch Rachael Ray on their iPhone?

My guess is that it will indeed happen on the iPhone, but not anytime soon. Apple doesn't typically jump on the latest technology right away. They'll wait until they're sure they can do it just right.

It would be great, but do you really think Apple will allow their iTunes sales to be compromised?

@Will: it requires more than one antenna?

Anyways, I would love to have this on my iPhone. Think of the possibilities: The Price is Right, The Simpsons, Major Leage Baseball games that happen to be on an over-the-air TV channel. The possibilities are endless!

Good luck trying to get any reception. Digital is crap in the UK and requires a antennae on the roof. Good luck trying to pick anything up on the go.