HDTV Almanac - ATSC Approves Mobile TV Standard

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alfredpoor
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HDTV Almanac - ATSC Approves Mobile TV Standard

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Last week, the ATSC approved a standard for mobile digital television broadcasting. “Mobile DTV” will give consumers access to free programming on a variety of mobile devices. Already, 70 broadcasters in 29 markets have annonuced plans to roll out Mobile DTV this year. Manufacturers including LG Electronics will ship a Mobile DTV device early in [...]

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6 MHz Band?

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The Mobile DTV services use the 6 MHz band ...
That has got to be incorrect. 6 MHz is an HF (shortwave) band.
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Thanks for the correction

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Good catch, gelyon.

Instead of "The Mobile DTV services use the 6 MHz band...",

it should read "The Mobile DTV services use the standard 6 MHz bandwidth ATSC digital TV channels...".

I apologize for the error, and thank you for pointing out the mistake.

Alfred
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