It’s difficult to sit through a technical
session on the mobile DTV standard and not sense the elephant. It’s virtually
impossible to not wonder where mobile DTV would be today if the fixed standard
were different.
By Deborah McAdams on
10/29/2010 7:10 AM
It’s difficult to sit through a technical
session on the mobile DTV standard and not sense the elephant. It’s virtually
impossible to not wonder where mobile DTV would be today if the fixed standard
were different.
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But wait! There are more pesky facts! For
example, although 547 MHz of spectrum is currently licensed for wireless
broadband, only around 170 MHz is being used. So the need for an additional 300
MHz of spectrum is based on 170 MHz, even though there’s 377 MHz now available!
And yet, there’s still more. The FCC’s white paper is like a veritable jackpot
of Ginsu knifery!
By Deborah McAdams on
10/22/2010 7:30 AM
But wait! There are more pesky facts! For
example, although 547 MHz of spectrum is currently licensed for wireless
broadband, only around 170 MHz is being used. So the need for an additional 300
MHz of spectrum is based on 170 MHz, even though there’s 377 MHz now available!
And yet, there’s still more. The FCC’s white paper is like a veritable jackpot
of Ginsu knifery!
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Kudos to KMPH Fox 26 in Fresno Calif. which reminded viewers of the relevance of OTA TV last week when they gave away 300 DTV antennas in just a few hours
By Deborah McAdams on
10/18/2010 1:55 AM
Kudos to KMPH Fox 26 in Fresno Calif. which reminded viewers of the relevance of OTA TV last week when they gave away 300 DTV antennas in just a few hours
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So I have written more than 1,000 news items and other such marginally
informative compendia this year. The subjects of which range from free TV, pay
TV, Internet TV, 3DTV, Mobile DTV, DirecTV, Hispanic TV, FLO TV, Google TV,
full-power TV, LPTV, Apple TV, public TV, MobiTV, spot TV and local HD to TV
transmitters, retransmission, iPads, the Kentucky Derby, MPEGIF, finance,
dialnorm, Android, acquisitions, FCC action, FCC inaction, FIFA, Fox, Fitch,
Fisher, spectrum, copper thieves, Technicolor, Comcast, Toyota and TiVo. Among
others. I know this because I kept a list.
By Deborah McAdams on
10/15/2010 7:04 AM
So I have written more than 1,000 news items and other such marginally
informative compendia this year. The subjects of which range from free TV, pay
TV, Internet TV, 3DTV, Mobile DTV, DirecTV, Hispanic TV, FLO TV, Google TV,
full-power TV, LPTV, Apple TV, public TV, MobiTV, spot TV and local HD to TV
transmitters, retransmission, iPads, the Kentucky Derby, MPEGIF, finance,
dialnorm, Android, acquisitions, FCC action, FCC inaction, FIFA, Fox, Fitch,
Fisher, spectrum, copper thieves, Technicolor, Comcast, Toyota and TiVo. Among
others. I know this because I kept a list.
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In a neighborhood not too distant from the Cardenas household, the family of
Victor Perez was watching TV when the AMBER Alert about Elisa was broadcast.
By Deborah McAdams on
10/14/2010 3:07 AM
In a neighborhood not too distant from the Cardenas household, the family of
Victor Perez was watching TV when the AMBER Alert about Elisa was broadcast.
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And so it is that just getting somewhere illustrates the yawning cleft of
techno-division. Soon the nüvi will do the driving, and those of us left
gripping a steering wheel will be the stuff of feature stories in the local
newsOLED. “Woman Drives Car with Hands and Feet.”
By Deborah McAdams on
10/12/2010 8:20 AM
And so it is that just getting somewhere illustrates the yawning cleft of
techno-division. Soon the nüvi will do the driving, and those of us left
gripping a steering wheel will be the stuff of feature stories in the local
newsOLED. “Woman Drives Car with Hands and Feet.”
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MediaFLO was a breakthrough technology. Qualcomm sank $683 million into spectrum
and several more millions into building a network of transmitters across the
country to launch it. They may have been better off just demonstrating MediaFLO’s
efficacy and licensing it to wireless carriers. Instead, they put together FLO
TV, which Verizon and AT&T ended up using the for their video offerings. Consequently the carriers had no skin in the game, and Qualcomm had all of it.
By Deborah McAdams on
10/8/2010 7:18 AM
MediaFLO was a breakthrough technology. Qualcomm sank $683 million into spectrum
and several more millions into building a network of transmitters across the
country to launch it. They may have been better off just demonstrating MediaFLO’s
efficacy and licensing it to wireless carriers. Instead, they put together FLO
TV, which Verizon and AT&T ended up using the for their video offerings. Consequently the carriers had no skin in the game, and Qualcomm had all of it.
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Now, thanks to the power of legislation, Americans can be safe from loud TV commercials. The Senate passed the Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation Act this week because it was easier to agree on than something that actually matters. The CALM
By Deborah McAdams on
10/1/2010 5:49 AM
Now, thanks to the power of legislation, Americans can be safe from loud TV commercials. The Senate passed the Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation Act this week because it was easier to agree on than something that actually matters. The CALM
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