Mobile TV signals for free? Maybe, with A-VSB
October 27th, 2006Free broadcast TV on your cell phone—isn’t that the kind of promise the future could keep without even breaking a sweat? Well, not so fast. American digital TV uses the ATSC standard, which just wasn’t built for mobile use.
But as Doug Lung explains, a proposed standard known as A-VSB, an enhancement to ATSC’s 8-VSB modulation, would make U.S. digital TV more mobile-friendly.
Earlier:
• Handheld digital TV: U.S. market is still waiting
• Mobile TV coming to ’select’ US cities
• Link: TV Technology