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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (61951)	4/4/2007 12:31:36 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 197304

The article that Slacker posted is most notable for it's lack of cost and distribution details on the handset side of the ledger. Another device in ones pocket isn't going to be a hit and being pedestrian, it won't work in cars nor commuter trains. Good points. I just scanned some other articles about the technology and they dont mention handsets specifically. They use the term "handheld". Slacker

To: waitwatchwander who wrote (61951)	4/4/2007 1:49:12 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197304

Art, Your fears are not founded in a digital system. The Ghost is taken care of by resolving multipath and coding errors prior to doing the Mpeg decoding. Ghost is an issue of analog adding of signals in teh radio and then displaying the resulting analog signal on a TV screen. The battery life is not so much the issue on digital systems these days, but the radio loads of a cellphone plus TV is the real issue. One must have a differnt radio for the TV from the Cellphone. If you also have Bluetooth, GPS, quad or even 7 band cellular(world phones..with CDMA), giant screens with lots of resolution, it all adds up. The actual Mpeg and reciever in digital is very little power.