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Return of the TV Wristwatch
An anonymous reader writes "20 years after the Seiko TV watch, another Asian firm has given it another go. The Globe and Mail in Canada got their hands on the NHJ TV Watch and have posted a review. The writer thinks it's still just way too huge to be a watch but is still impressed."
these have been available for a while now from Dynamism. they're cheaper than i would have thought at $219. probably the cheapest item dynamism carries...
tekgear sells 'em
Exactly. If the tuner is the size of a lego block, it should, ( and probably will) be incorporated into a PDA, (or better, cell phone). That would make the most sense.
In Berlin, they turned analog VHF/UHF off and switched to digital DVB-T this spring. The rest of good old Germany will follow suit in the next couple of years, which would make this the most expensive display of white noise around :-).
A DVB-T wristwatch with a USB port would be very cool though: watch TV while they send that 2gigabyte file to your Notebook...
In the UK, we are going to have broadcast TV indefinitely, but they are going to turn off the analog broadcast in about 2008 and have digital only. Digital broadcast - not satellite - is already up and running.
I would imagind that the same is likely to be true in the US in due course, because there are some places which it will never by appropriate to run cable, and cutting someone off fram access to TV is downright un-American.
Apart from anything else, what \re you going to wathc in your RV. And will they cable all the trailer parks? I know satellite is an option, but Digital Terrestrial is likely to be in there.
Which means that the watch will have to pack in a full digital decoder. Hmm - another couple of years, I would say.
Of course, things like this can affect the process. If there are a load of people going around with gadgets like this, advertisers will pay to get to them. If good enough, these can make their own supply.
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Why not use Bluetooth instead of a cable. Your pocket harddrive Ipod could then stream video and audio to it or pair of sunglasses.
Not enough bandwidth. That's why not.
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