TV On Cellphones Ever Closer · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday December 12, 2004 @11:01AM from the jon-stewart-to-the-front-please dept.

Yurian writes "Seems that the new breed of cell-phones are being readied to receive digital TV. The standard has been finalized and handsets are in test. The emergence of DVB-H explains a puzzling purchase made last year by Crown Castle of Houston, Texas. The company, which runs the BBC's transmitter network in the UK, paid $12 million for a 5-megahertz slice of coast-to-coast radio spectrum in the US. At the time no one knew why. But Crown Castle transmitters near Pittsburgh are already broadcasting DVB-H to prototype Nokia mobile TV phones. That purchase may turn out to be an amazing bargain, considering other operators paid billions for 3G licenses which were originally meant to deliver video services."

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Re:Location by josh3736 · 2004-12-12 11:13 · Score: 3, Informative

Better yet: how "open" is this system?
Will I be able to buy/build a device to receive this signal and decode it? Will I have to pay any monthly fees for this?
It would be great to use my laptop to receive this service. Much bigger screen, better speakers.