CES 2009: Hands-On With LG's Mobile DTV

Thursday January 8, 2009

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Free mobile TV is real, it's on the floor at CES, and ... it works like TV. At LG's booth at this year's CES, the company was showing off several devices with the new Mobile DTV standard. Two of them looked a lot like the existing LG Vu and LG Voyager phones; two were netbooks with LG TV dongles plugged into USB ports; and the last was a portable DVD player with a built in TV receiver.

The good news: Mobile DTV works like TV. You change channels using the now-familiar digital channel numbers, just like at home. You can pop up a program guide, or information about the program you're watching. Switching channels takes just a second or so. And reception, well, it's as good as your TV reception is wherever you are.

My one quibble: the video resolution looked low on the test devices I saw, so all the pictures were just a little fuzzy or distorted. That's an early-device problem, an LG person told me. Considering that we still have a year to go before free mobile TV hits the masses, this was a pretty solid demo.

I have a story explaining all about mobile DTV on PCMag.com.

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Posted By: Sascha Segan

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