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What baffles me is that every TV sold today already has a wireless DTV receiver built into it! You know, that one that you can hook rabbit ears to, and the one
by transfire 13y ago
What baffles me is that every TV sold today already has a wireless DTV receiver built into it! You know, that one that you can hook rabbit ears to, and the one so few people actually use.
Can someone please explain to me why no one builds transmitters for these?
- amalag 13y agoI don't think it is legal to transmit on those frequencies, thats what the stations pay big bucks for.
- hnal943 13y agoRadio stations pay big bucks to broadcast on the FM frequencies, and yet they make FM Transmitters for your car. Why wouldn't DTV be the same?
- amalag 13y agoThats a good point, I didn't think of that. The FCC did make some allowance for low power FM transmitters, probably because they couldn't control it anyway. I see some people selling similar low power TV transmitters, but I don't know why it isn't more common. Since it is more complex than the FM transmitters and more of a risk, I wonder if the lack of FCC regs has stopped it in the US.
- adestefan 13y agoLow power FM refers to a specific class of licenses[1] and not the little radio dongles. [1] http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/low-power-fm-broadcast-radio-stations-lpfm http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/low-power-fm-broadcast-radio...
- aestra 13y agoBecause you can't broadcast in frequencies that overlap with the actual TV signals, which is what that actually pick up?
- MichaelApproved 13y agoThat won't help you broadcast to a projector. Working with an HDMI connector, you solve the problem for both TVs and projectors.