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I like the fact it has a TV tuner! The extendable antennae might be a bit wonky, but I would love to use my tablet to pick up radio and/or tv. there is no gua

I like the fact it has a TV tuner! The extendable antennae might be a bit wonky, but I would love to use my tablet to pick up radio and/or tv. there is no guarantee of internet connectivity in an emergency so I am curious why no tablets that I have seen offer similar?

JonSkeptic 13y ago
It's a cool idea. If I'm not mistaken, the FCC is now allowing some development and use of the old TV bands. I'd love to some creative use of it from the open source community. http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/projects/tvbanddevice/ http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/projects/tvbanddevice/
killme 13y ago
I think in Japan and South Korea, a lot of smartphones(and perhaps tablets) allow TV reception.
- Jongseong 13y ago
  In South Korea at least, Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) is built into a lot of phones and portable media devices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Broadcasting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Broadcastin... But this requires special DMB signal transmission, which I doubt North Korea has. I would think the antennas would be for analog TV reception.
- sbarre 13y ago
  When I was in Japan in 2008, my friend's cell phone screen could rotate out 90 degrees (into a traditional 16:9 TV-looking layout [1]) and he could watch quite a few TV channels on it that way. This wasn't something he was paying for, it was just part of his base plan apparently.. [1] http://images.gizmag.com/hero/9604_8070843257.jpg http://images.gizmag.com/hero/9604_8070843257.jpg
  - kalleboo 13y ago
    It's called 1seg and is part of the Japanese digital terrestrial OTA TV network (the regular digital OTA broadcasts contain a low-bandwidth stream for mobile devices to pick up). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1seg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1seg