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World's Most Advanced Portable TV

Posted by timothy on from the likely-excuse dept.

Eric Schlaepfer writes "Here's another great toy for your wish list! ICOM manufactures the highly advanced IC-R3 portable scanner/television set. Besides picking up radio stations in the frequency range of 0.495-2450MHz, the IC-R3 also receives regular television signals, amateur television, and wireless security camera signals."

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  1. Re:Too bad ... by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only better (at 10x the price) would be the AR-one here, almost forgot ... have to be a non-US location to ship to ...

    Its nice to have relatives in Canada :).

    Its sad though. I think we are one of the few industrialized nations on earth who have rescrictions on what frequencies can be listened to and when.

    Many states for instance have anti-scanner laws that prohibit you from having a R3 or another scanner in your car.

    And you know the cops don't want you listening in when they switch to encrypted digital repeaters.

  2. No FM video demod by pestie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Another complaint I've heard about the IC-R3 is that it doesn't demodulate FM video across its entire receive range (or maybe not at all). A lot of "interesting" video is FM modulated, not AM (like broadcast TV, amateur TV, etc.) That alone would keep me from buying it, but throw in the poor sensitivity and I just don't see the point. Besides, I'm lucky enough to have an AOR AR-5000+3, so I can just add one of these and a cheap video monitor or video capture card to it and get the same functionality, albeit with less portability.