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Re:North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the... by Shivetya on Monday November 04, 2013 @11:47AM (#6669577)
I like the fact it has a TV tuner! The extendable antennae might be a bit wonky, but I would love to use my tablet to pick up radio and/or tv. there is no guarantee of internet connectivity in an emergency so I am curious why no tablets that I have seen offer similar?
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Re:North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the... by JonSkeptic on Monday November 04, 2013 @11:58AM (#6669634)
It's a cool idea. If I'm not mistaken, the FCC is now allowing some development and use of the old TV bands. I'd love to some creative use of it from the open source community.

http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/projects/tvbanddevice/

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Re:North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the... by killme on Monday November 04, 2013 @12:12PM (#6669726)
I think in Japan and South Korea, a lot of smartphones(and perhaps tablets) allow TV reception.
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Re:North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the... by sbarre on Monday November 04, 2013 @12:53PM (#6670007)
When 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

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Re:North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the... by kalleboo on Monday November 04, 2013 @01:01PM (#6670057)
It'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

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Re:North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the... by Jongseong on Monday November 04, 2013 @12:36PM (#6669907)
In 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_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.

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