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02-15-2006, 08:32 PM
<p>Filed under: <a href="http://cellphones.engadget.com" rel="tag">Cellphones</a>, <a href="http://features.engadget.com" rel="tag">Features</a>, <a href="http://handhelds.engadget.com" rel="tag">Handhelds</a>, <a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com" rel="tag">HDTV</a>, <a href="http://homeentertainment.engadget.com" rel="tag">Home Entertainment</a>, <a href="http://portablevideo.engadget.com" rel="tag">Portable Video</a></p><div id="pc96316"><p><img width="230" vspace="16" hspace="4" height="214" border="0" align="right"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057134.jpg?0.11316982114099228" alt="retro digital tv (small)"
/>Here we are at the end of this three part series on digital television (DTV). <a target="_blank" title="View Digital
Television, Part 1: Making Sense of it all on Engadget"
href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/17/digital-television-part-1-making-sense-of-it-all/">Part 1: Making Sense of it
all</a> set out to, um, make some sense of all the standards while <a target="_blank" title="View Digital Television,
Part II: Global status on Engadget"
href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/digital-television-part-ii-global-status/">Part II: Global status</a> provided
a snapshot as to how the implementations are shaping up on a world wide scale. But we know what you really want: device
pr0n. So without further ado…</p></div><br />
<p><strong>FIXED RECEPTION DEVICES</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img vspace="4" hspace="4"
border="1" src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/01/103_3.jpg" alt="" /><br /></p>
<p><span>Nothing too exciting in
the fixed reception category since we've all seen digital televisions before. However, the <a
href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/09/panasonics-103-incher-up-close-and-personal/">103-inch Panasonic Plasma</a>
which throws down </span>about 30 square feet of viewing space, a 3001:1 contrast ratio, and pushes over 2 million
pixels progressively <span>is still worth a drool.<br /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span><img
width="396" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="139" border="0" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057183.jpg?0.0428826564090079" alt="Philips DTR2520 DVB-T set top
box" /></span></p>
<p>And in case you're wondering, here's a Philips DTR2520 set top box which decodes UK <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=freeview">Freeview</a> (a <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=crown%20castle&submit=Go">Crown Castle</a> partner) DVB-T transmissions on
your old analog TV.</p>
<br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><img width="400" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="250"
border="0" align="texttop" src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057215.jpg?0.29035958042031984"
alt="Elgato 410 DVB-T" /></p>
<p>Just for kix, here's a DVB-T tuner and recorder <span name="textmarker_1"
style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 255);" id="textmarked_0"></span>for your Mac from Elgato with a CI (Common
Interface) slot for a PayTV CAM (Conditional Access Module).<br /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span><img
width="427" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="341" border="0" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057200.jpg?0.32269777469598204" alt="Artec T2 (large)" /><br
/></span></p>
<p><span>Some manufacturers have already released "portable" DVB-T devices like the</span> <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000310050878/">Artec T2 Happy to Go</a> <span>DVD player. Sure, these will
work, but without the time-slicing technology included in DVB-H, reception is gonna wring your battery dry all lickity
split-like.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>MOBILE HANDSET RECEPTION</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:
center;"><img width="400" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="266" border="0" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057189.jpg?0.15933586486984308" alt="Nokia 7710 DVB-H"
/></p>
<p><span>Things get much more interesting when we look at mobile DTV handsets. Let's start old-school with the
current DVB-H whipping boy, the <a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/6450235245623213/">Nokia 7710</a>. This device
is pretty much the exclusive handset used in DVB-H trials globally and comes handicapped by up to 15 seconds in channel
changing delay.<br /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img width="425" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="380"
border="1" align="texttop" src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000056337.jpg?0.5458961831310145"
alt="Nokia N92" /></p>
<p><span>Here we have Nokia's great-silver-hope, the</span> <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=N92">N92</a> which will be blowing the DVB-H
cavalry call by mid-2006. It should help to shave down those channel changing times to a more respectable 2-4 seconds
claimed by the DVB-H standard.<br /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img width="337" vspace="4" hspace="4"
height="326" border="1" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000050555.jpg?0.2766998248712145" alt="Samsung B2300"
/></p>
<p><span>On the other side of the technology front, we have those South Korean DMB phones. Here’s a</span>
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000070064736/">Samsung B2300 satellite DMB phone</a> <span>receiving DTV
broadcasts at 2.6 GHz (note integrated antenna).<br /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span><img width="374"
vspace="4" hspace="4" height="337" border="1" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000055809.jpg?0.3099501529109897" alt="LG PM80"
/></span></p>
<p><span>And here we have</span> <a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000070069943/">LG’s
PM80</a> <span>billed as the world’s first PocketPC running on South Korea’s 200 MHz T-DMB system (note
telescoping antenna due to low frequency band).<br /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img vspace="4"
hspace="4" border="1" align="middle" src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/01/200601020021_01.jpg" alt=""
/></p>
<p>Rounding out the lot is a suite of phones from LG, who like Samsung announced phones at CES 2006 covering
DVB-H, T-DMB, S-DMB, and finally... MediaFLO. This kind of standards promiscuity by two major handset manufacturers is
a good indicator that the fight for a world-dominating mobile TV broadcast*standard is anybody's ballgame.<br
/></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img width="267" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="348" border="0" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057203.jpg?0.042904712611092966" alt="Toshiba MTV-S10 (big)" />
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Finally, a little love for Japan who are going their own way with ISDB-T.
Here’s the Toshiba MTV-S10 handheld DTV device available on the MobaHO! network.</p>
<p style="text-align:
left;">So there you have it. That digital TV opiate is wafting its way into your living room whether you’re
looking for that fix or not. And by 2008, mobile digital TV services are bent on re-defining “prime time”
as the 5-6:00PM commute hour when squinting wage donkeys are tuning in and dropping out on the train, subway, or bus
ride home from work. But first, the world must layeth the smack down on mobile DTV with the first grudge match<span
name="textmarker_13" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" id="textmarked_12"></span> set to launch in Germany
this June as vendors gear up to provide mobile DTV coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. So let’s all pull up a
log, hold hands, and sing a few verses of kumbaya while we wait for the dust to settle. It’s going to get uglier
a lot quicker than it's gonna get pretty.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/19/digital-television-part-iii-device-pr0n/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>*|*<a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/forward/96316/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>*|*<a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&fc=1&url=http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/19/digital-television-part-iii-device-pr0n/" title="Linking Blogs">Linking*Blogs</a>*|*<a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/19/digital-television-part-iii-device-pr0n/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a><br /><br /><p><map name="google_ad_map_21-96316"><area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/21-96316?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28" /><area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23" /></map><img usemap="#google_ad_map_21-96316" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&client=ca-pub-3546992251556849&channel=22&output=png&cuid=21-96316&url=http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/19/digital-television-part-iii-device-pr0n/" /></p>
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src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057134.jpg?0.11316982114099228" alt="retro digital tv (small)"
/>Here we are at the end of this three part series on digital television (DTV). <a target="_blank" title="View Digital
Television, Part 1: Making Sense of it all on Engadget"
href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/17/digital-television-part-1-making-sense-of-it-all/">Part 1: Making Sense of it
all</a> set out to, um, make some sense of all the standards while <a target="_blank" title="View Digital Television,
Part II: Global status on Engadget"
href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/digital-television-part-ii-global-status/">Part II: Global status</a> provided
a snapshot as to how the implementations are shaping up on a world wide scale. But we know what you really want: device
pr0n. So without further ado…</p></div><br />
<p><strong>FIXED RECEPTION DEVICES</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img vspace="4" hspace="4"
border="1" src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/01/103_3.jpg" alt="" /><br /></p>
<p><span>Nothing too exciting in
the fixed reception category since we've all seen digital televisions before. However, the <a
href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/09/panasonics-103-incher-up-close-and-personal/">103-inch Panasonic Plasma</a>
which throws down </span>about 30 square feet of viewing space, a 3001:1 contrast ratio, and pushes over 2 million
pixels progressively <span>is still worth a drool.<br /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span><img
width="396" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="139" border="0" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057183.jpg?0.0428826564090079" alt="Philips DTR2520 DVB-T set top
box" /></span></p>
<p>And in case you're wondering, here's a Philips DTR2520 set top box which decodes UK <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=freeview">Freeview</a> (a <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=crown%20castle&submit=Go">Crown Castle</a> partner) DVB-T transmissions on
your old analog TV.</p>
<br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><img width="400" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="250"
border="0" align="texttop" src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057215.jpg?0.29035958042031984"
alt="Elgato 410 DVB-T" /></p>
<p>Just for kix, here's a DVB-T tuner and recorder <span name="textmarker_1"
style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 255);" id="textmarked_0"></span>for your Mac from Elgato with a CI (Common
Interface) slot for a PayTV CAM (Conditional Access Module).<br /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span><img
width="427" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="341" border="0" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057200.jpg?0.32269777469598204" alt="Artec T2 (large)" /><br
/></span></p>
<p><span>Some manufacturers have already released "portable" DVB-T devices like the</span> <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000310050878/">Artec T2 Happy to Go</a> <span>DVD player. Sure, these will
work, but without the time-slicing technology included in DVB-H, reception is gonna wring your battery dry all lickity
split-like.</span></p>
<p><span><strong>MOBILE HANDSET RECEPTION</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:
center;"><img width="400" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="266" border="0" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057189.jpg?0.15933586486984308" alt="Nokia 7710 DVB-H"
/></p>
<p><span>Things get much more interesting when we look at mobile DTV handsets. Let's start old-school with the
current DVB-H whipping boy, the <a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/6450235245623213/">Nokia 7710</a>. This device
is pretty much the exclusive handset used in DVB-H trials globally and comes handicapped by up to 15 seconds in channel
changing delay.<br /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img width="425" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="380"
border="1" align="texttop" src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000056337.jpg?0.5458961831310145"
alt="Nokia N92" /></p>
<p><span>Here we have Nokia's great-silver-hope, the</span> <a
href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?sourceid=Mozilla-search&q=N92">N92</a> which will be blowing the DVB-H
cavalry call by mid-2006. It should help to shave down those channel changing times to a more respectable 2-4 seconds
claimed by the DVB-H standard.<br /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img width="337" vspace="4" hspace="4"
height="326" border="1" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000050555.jpg?0.2766998248712145" alt="Samsung B2300"
/></p>
<p><span>On the other side of the technology front, we have those South Korean DMB phones. Here’s a</span>
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000070064736/">Samsung B2300 satellite DMB phone</a> <span>receiving DTV
broadcasts at 2.6 GHz (note integrated antenna).<br /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span><img width="374"
vspace="4" hspace="4" height="337" border="1" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000055809.jpg?0.3099501529109897" alt="LG PM80"
/></span></p>
<p><span>And here we have</span> <a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000070069943/">LG’s
PM80</a> <span>billed as the world’s first PocketPC running on South Korea’s 200 MHz T-DMB system (note
telescoping antenna due to low frequency band).<br /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img vspace="4"
hspace="4" border="1" align="middle" src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/01/200601020021_01.jpg" alt=""
/></p>
<p>Rounding out the lot is a suite of phones from LG, who like Samsung announced phones at CES 2006 covering
DVB-H, T-DMB, S-DMB, and finally... MediaFLO. This kind of standards promiscuity by two major handset manufacturers is
a good indicator that the fight for a world-dominating mobile TV broadcast*standard is anybody's ballgame.<br
/></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img width="267" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="348" border="0" align="texttop"
src="http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057203.jpg?0.042904712611092966" alt="Toshiba MTV-S10 (big)" />
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Finally, a little love for Japan who are going their own way with ISDB-T.
Here’s the Toshiba MTV-S10 handheld DTV device available on the MobaHO! network.</p>
<p style="text-align:
left;">So there you have it. That digital TV opiate is wafting its way into your living room whether you’re
looking for that fix or not. And by 2008, mobile digital TV services are bent on re-defining “prime time”
as the 5-6:00PM commute hour when squinting wage donkeys are tuning in and dropping out on the train, subway, or bus
ride home from work. But first, the world must layeth the smack down on mobile DTV with the first grudge match<span
name="textmarker_13" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" id="textmarked_12"></span> set to launch in Germany
this June as vendors gear up to provide mobile DTV coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. So let’s all pull up a
log, hold hands, and sing a few verses of kumbaya while we wait for the dust to settle. It’s going to get uglier
a lot quicker than it's gonna get pretty.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/19/digital-television-part-iii-device-pr0n/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>*|*<a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/forward/96316/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>*|*<a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&fc=1&url=http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/19/digital-television-part-iii-device-pr0n/" title="Linking Blogs">Linking*Blogs</a>*|*<a href="http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/19/digital-television-part-iii-device-pr0n/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a><br /><br /><p><map name="google_ad_map_21-96316"><area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/21-96316?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28" /><area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23" /></map><img usemap="#google_ad_map_21-96316" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&client=ca-pub-3546992251556849&channel=22&output=png&cuid=21-96316&url=http://hdtv.engadget.com/2006/01/19/digital-television-part-iii-device-pr0n/" /></p>
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