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Low Profile Satellite TV Antennas for Vehicles

Posted by chrisd on from the useful-for-rvs dept.

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."

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  1. Woohoo I can cut 100 Grand by pardasaniman · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Internet, TV, Sleep

    1. Re:Woohoo I can cut 100 Grand by Strudelkugel · · Score: 5, Funny

      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"...?

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    2. Re:Woohoo I can cut 100 Grand by rindeee · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Oh god by geek · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Oh god by kindbud · · Score: 5, Funny

      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?

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  3. Two Way by nick_davison · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Well this is an accident waiting to happen by Kalewa · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. Oh Great.... by thumbtack · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  6. Mobile Radio Telescopy by handy_vandal · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 ....)

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  7. Re:Finally.. by ejaw5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  8. Re:Good by Peterus7 · · Score: 5, Funny
    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...