Mobile DTV ready to roll out, upgrading 20 major metros to portable TV by 2012

Slowly but surely, the biggest US cities are catching up to the rest of the world — just imagine, by this time next year, we might even have broadcast television beamed to our tablets and cell phones. That’s because the Mobile Content Venture formed from twelve media giants in April has just promised to start upgrading TV stations to deliver Mobile DTV (aka ATSC-M/H) around the country, with the intent of reaching 20 major markets and a total of 40 percent of the US population by “late 2011.” Each of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Detroit, Tampa, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Orlando, Portland, Cincinnati, Greenville, West Palm Beach, Birmingham and Knoxville can expect to have a pair of ad-supported TV channels before long, assuming citizens are willing and able to pick up hardware with a old-school RF antenna sticking out — and that whole “streaming” thing doesn’t take off. PR after the break. Continue reading Mobile DTV ready to roll out, upgrading 20 major metros to portable TV by 2012 Mobile DTV ready to roll out, upgrading 20 major metros to portable TV by 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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