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Re:Your First LTE by avidiax on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @03:42AM (#35710600)
Bluetooth LE is developing a broadcast solution like this. Eventually, commodity headphones will be able to subscribe to such broadcasts.

Time to short the companies that make lecture hall assisted audio devices and museum audio guides.

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Re:Your First LTE by danw1979 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:39AM (#35713486)
Bluetooth: celebrating 25ish years of crappy UX.

I can’t wait to see what headphone manufacturers come up with in order to let a user subscribe to an LE Broadcast … maybe by jabbing two or three side-of-head hardware button combos, wait 30s, pair again, grr, now repeat x2 for the kids.

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Re:Your First LTE by i_am_jl on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @10:57AM (#35714658)
>maybe by jabbing two or three side-of-head hardware button combos, wait 30s, pair again, grr, now repeat x2 for the kids.

That would be frustrating. If only the headphones came with some sort of companion device with a touchscreen that could be used to navigate the pairing process.

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Re:Your First LTE by namibj on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:08AM (#35724334)
Just getting the WiFi synced or SDR wifi band transmitters to inject without the base station's proper cooperation would allow synchronous broadcasting of FEC'd UDP streams that an app could easily decode.

Because OFDM allows for multipath even if that's due to literally multiple separate transmitters just synced much tighter than the guard interval (which would probably be 400ns).

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