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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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