Hands on Test of FLO (D)TV
K. B.
Getting my evening fill of TV from a device with a 3.5-inch,
320-by-240-pixel touchscreen wasn't as painful as expected
~~~
Kirk Bayne
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Daniel W. Rouse Jr.
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> <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355861,00.asp>
>
> Getting my evening fill of TV from a device with a 3.5-inch,
> 320-by-240-pixel touchscreen wasn't as painful as expected
>
metion at all about black screen with No Signal types of problems. No
mention of any need for an antenna upgrade of any kind, and the only
complaints were video resolution and the price of the device/subscription
cost.
What do FLO TV do right in contrast to what ATSC did so wrong?
Andy from Dover
"Daniel W. Rouse Jr." <dwro...@nethere.comNOSPAM> wrote in message
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaFLO
They chose a high robust OFDM sceme. This limits the total bitrate so not
even one HD subchannel could be broadcast. We would have had an SDTV
transition and IMHO HD would never have seen the light of day here.
http://www.flotv.com/whats-on-flo-tv/map
Click the above link and put your address in before you start praising the
reception value of Flo TV.
TJ
Read the article again...
"I was unable to pick up a signal from the PCMag Labs, and needed to be
near a window in my apartment before content would appear."
TJ
Daniel W. Rouse Jr.
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out, or his video kept jerking or freezing, etc. and so that means those
problems weren't seen by that reviewer when using FLO TV.
TJ
Hey, you can get that too - if you want to pay a monthly fee.
As Robert Heinlein once wrote, TANSTAAFL. (There Ain't No Such Thing As
A Free Lunch.)
TJ