[BC] HDTV s impact on portables

[Robert Meuser]

If the unit you linked is that small and can be USB powered I guess the 
DTV industry is well into small and efficient chip sets. That would 
indicated that battery powered portables will be there.  Considering the 
existing portables need enough power to light up a CRT and that new set 
will likely be LCD; power consumption should be similar for NTSC and DTV 
portables.

R


Bob Tarsio wrote:

>I think one possible solution would be a laptop computer with a TV tuner
>card installed. They do make DTV tuner cards now so that may be one possible
>solution. I don't know what the battery life would be like but you could
>receive a DTV signal that way. Check out this link for ideas:
>http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_hvr950.html
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>Bob Tarsio
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>While on the way home form work, I was chatting with a local ham. This 
>gentleman (in all senses of the word) gave me something to think about... I 
>mentioned to him the nature of this Forum, and how I have not seen anyone
>else 
>address 
>this very real concern. I had no answer for him, so I told him that I would 
>pass along his question to this fine group:
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>"What about all of the poeple who rely upon battery-operated TV sets to get 
>news and information in emergencies?"
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>That one stumped me. How *IS* anyone with a battery-portable TV going to use
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>the proposed HDTV converter box? Obviously, they aren't! (Unless they're
>going 
>to make a model with a DC power input, which I tend to doubt.) He was rather
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>adamant about this, and once he expressed this to me, I knew what he was 
>getting at.
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>All of those battery-portable radio/TV units will be nothing but radios come
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>2009, when analog TV goes away. Not even the "TV sound " radios will hear 
>anything useful anymore. In many emergencies, yes, Radio is still a vial
>link, 
>but 
>so is TV. Come 2009... "Now what?"
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>Thoughts?
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>Willie...
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