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Bringing Free Television To Phones In America
ideonexus writes "South Korea, China, Brazil, parts of Europe, and Japan have been watching television on their phones for free since 2005, but American mobile carriers are struggling to offer clunky streaming video using Qualcomm's proprietary MediaFLO system for an additional monthly fee and excessive bandwidth demands. Now, with America having gone digital in June, if Mobile carriers were to have ATSC M/H (advanced television systems committee — mobile/handheld) television-tuner chips built into their handsets it sounds like we could enjoy free TV on our cell phones too; however, these companies have already invested a great deal of money adapting their networks to Qualcomm's format and Qualcomm is considering becoming a mobile television distributor itself."
But you might miss important programs, like "Who wants to marry a minimum wage construction worker 17", "Surviver 39: Let's eat some live bugs and run around naked again", "Big Brother 26: Who cares any more", "Bachelor 45: Lets have sex with Russian mail order brides", and "Bachelorette 15: Women want to have indiscriminate sex too".
How could anyone not desire to see such revolutionary important and educational television programs as these?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.