Low Profile Satellite TV Antennas for Vehicles

Brian Mattis writes "CNN is reporting a new antenna system that allows SUV's, minivans and cars to receive DirecTV video and audio programming on the road. Future plans call for internet access as well. This could be a nail in the coffin of Sirius and XM radio."

Comments

Direct TV?

[tinrobot]

So, in addition to cell phones, people will also be watching 'Sex In the City' while driving? Yike.

Re:Direct TV?

[ChadN]

Well, in California it is already the case that I can watch TV while driving; I just need to be stuck behind a monster SUV (which are about a third of all the cars), with it's TV on (which is about an eighth of all monster SUV's). Since I can't see around the huge damn things, I have to look through them, and I therefore am occasionally watching some TV (usually through almost totally tinted windows though, which makes it even harder to see what might be coming up ahead.)

Note - this only applies in heavy, slow traffic, though. Otherwise, I'm staying well behind those mutha's, or whipping around in front of 'em.

Woohoo I can cut 100 Grand

[pardasaniman]

Yes!! I can now live in my car!!

Internet, TV, Sleep

Re:Woohoo I can cut 100 Grand

[Strudelkugel]

Right, now family hour will be in the back seat of the car. Makes sense, that's where many families got started! Or should I say, "instantiated"...?

Re:Woohoo I can cut 100 Grand

[rindeee]

Suddenly living "In a van...by the river!!!!" takes on a posotive connotation.

Oh god

[geek]

Please no. Cell phones are bad enough. All we need is some blonde in an SUV causing a 200 car pile up on I5 because she was watching Martha Stewart Living and talking on her cell phone while doing her make up at 80mph.

Re:Oh god

[Anonymous Coward]

just to be clear... it's fine if a brunette does this.

Or a man. Or not in a SUV, or on I80, or if it's Arsenio Hall's new Star Search that's bein' watched....

Re:Oh god

[kindbud]

There's a 200 car pile up, but you want to blame the blonde, just because of the other 199 TV watchers and cell-phone talkers, she was the first to blow it? What about the slashdotter in the Gremlin next to her who didn't see her swerve because he was watching The Making of LOTR:ROTK while encoding and beaming a pirate video stream as a test of the 802.11 free metropolitan WAN set up by his LUG using autonomous Aibos equipped with access points which roamed the city according to directions from a distributed program that moved the robot dogs around to optimize coverage at any moment under the control of a clever algorithm? What about that?

Re:Oh god

[mstyne]

Duh, in that case it's O.K.

Two Way

[nick_davison]

Now if they just add in car black boxes and a two way feature, you can have the local news programs doing up to the moment reports on drives who crash while watching the local news programs on drivers who crash while watching the local news programs on drivers who.....

Those ludites may have had a point.

Well this is an accident waiting to happen

[Kalewa]

I can just see the freeway pileup that would happen when the administrator of the first ever movile webserver gets slashdotted.

TV's do NOT belong in cars!

[Zenjive]

It's just way too much of a distraction, even if it's just in the backseat to placate your screaming little brats with Disney's latest brainrot!

Where do I send the cheque???

[Elvis77]

Where do I send the cheque??? It promises to "put an end to back-seat bickering among grumpy siblings during long family car trips". I don't care how it works or how much it costs I want it...

Radios do NOT belong in cars!

[Cid Highwind]

(same rant, circa 1940)

now here is a device

[JeanBaptiste]

that will decrease auto related fatalities. /sarcasm

Oh Great....

[thumbtack]

First I have to deal with idiots dialing their cell phone, no someone watching the playboy channel?

Mobile Radio Telescopy

[handy_vandal]

What I want is a low-profile radio telescope for my car, so I can search for signs of intelligent life while commuting to work. (God knows it's tough to find intelligent life on the freeway ....)

Re:Finally..

[ejaw5]

Gee..and we thought rubbernecking was already bad enough on the side of the highway we're presently driving on at the time, now people can slow down to watch car crashes that happened elsewhere

Re:Good

[Peterus7]

Two thoughts on this:

If cell phones make people stupid while they're driving, what will this do?

Also, if the RIAA ever wins over the government and makes P2P illegal, there could be mobile P2P... Wow, that would be fun... Car chases over 11 k/s...

Re:Good

[Anonymous Coward]

In car pay-per-view pr0n. LOL.

Heh, Heh! Now to Hack Poindexter From My Limo!

[Master of Transhuman]

In a few years, I can hack from my limo (babes in the back), using encrypted links, no one can find me, no one can stop me, I can get in anywhere...

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAH....

Oh, wait...

Sorry, thought I was posting to Phrack...