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I think in Japan and South Korea, a lot of smartphones(and perhaps tablets) allow TV reception.
by killme 13y ago
I think in Japan and South Korea, a lot of smartphones(and perhaps tablets) allow TV reception.
- Jongseong 13y agoIn 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 agoWhen 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 agoIt'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