This is a brief excerpt from NoFilmSchool
Yesterday, Google announced that YouTube was coming to your real tube in a big new way, by way of your Android device and WiFi. Today, RCA has reported something similar, but the opposite — sort of — perhaps looking to get in on today’s lucrative tablet market. Interestingly, in this case, the company has announced an Android tablet that will be capable of wirelessly receiving television channels, for free — but not via WiFi internet access. The device will tap the airwaves in much the same way the ‘bunny ears’ of your parents’ old cable-less TV set did back in the ’50s, but allow you to do so while traveling, up to 100 miles per hour.
RCA has actually launched a site specifically dedicated to their Mobile Digital TV push, with thanks to AllThingsD for the feed. The flagship product looks to be a 7 inch 800×480-display tablet, called simply enough the 7″ Mobile DTV. What RCA is calling the ATSC Mobile DTV Standard is at the heart of this technology, about which RCA itself has this to say:
ATSC Mobile DTV Standard is a standard in the United States for mobile digital TV that allows TV broadcasts to be received by mobile …
By: Dave Kendricken
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