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DS Misc > Digital TV Tuner for DS (lite)

#71917 - Xtreme - Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:15 am

Digital TV Tuner for Nintendo DS and DS lit

Picture: Look

News links:
DS-x2: URL
Joystiq: URL
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#71932 - Filb - Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:33 pm

Why not? :)
Digital TV tuner sounds good for boring classes.

#71934 - Xtreme - Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:47 pm

Filb wrote:
sounds good for boring classes.

Or waiting your clothes to wash in laundry center. I hate ppl who stole your clothes so I wait till the end for mine. It's very boring.. but I have DS, my saver. :)
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#71941 - Apoc - Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:53 pm

Xtreme wrote:
Filb wrote:
sounds good for boring classes.

Or waiting your clothes to wash in laundry center. I hate ppl who stole your clothes so I wait till the end for mine. It's very boring.. but I have DS, my saver. :)


Don't you have washing machine at home? I never knew anyone who doesn't.

#71942 - Xtreme - Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:05 pm

Apoc wrote:
Don't you have washing machine at home? I never knew anyone who doesn't.

No I don't have. And I don't have drum drier or any machine to wash my carpets. And no space where to wash my carpets. I have very small apartment and I'm very poor without a real job (still trying to find one. very hard to find any in my country).

EDIT: If you like to see what my country looks like, just watch Conan O'Brien's TV show.. he just visited in my country (Finland).
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#71978 - Darkflame - Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:04 pm

Well, it looks neat.

Says its designed for the special mobile phone-digital tv network thingy.

Which always strikes me as a waste of time.
Why not just recieve normal digital tv broadcasts :?

#71987 - tepples - Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:20 pm

Two reasons:
  • Demodulators and decoders for digital terrestrial broadcast television are not yet small enough to fit in an Option Pak. Phone TV receiver hardware is designed to fit in a handheld handset from day one.
  • The 8VSB modulation used for ATSC television in the United States is very sensitive to the Doppler effect, which means that it's not suitable for the moving bus or train environments where the DS is often found. The TDMA-based modulation of GSM is designed to work from a moving handset from day one.

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#72002 - tssf - Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:27 pm

Apoc wrote:
Xtreme wrote:
Filb wrote:
sounds good for boring classes.

Or waiting your clothes to wash in laundry center. I hate ppl who stole your clothes so I wait till the end for mine. It's very boring.. but I have DS, my saver. :)


Don't you have washing machine at home? I never knew anyone who doesn't.


Those kind of appliances are expensive, so some people may not have them. Or, even if you live in an apartment and there's only one washing machine/dryer per building, it'd be completely inconvenient.

Laundromats also rock if you have many loads and only one washer at home, in which you can wash garbage bags full of clothes all at once.

Back on topic though, I haven't heard any thing about it but are there plans to include A/V ports?
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#72017 - Sebbo - Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:22 am

some more images of the TV tuner and Opera
sounds like it will use the same tech as 3 Mobile uses here in Australia
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#72024 - HyperHacker - Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:00 am

Oh, niiiiiiice.

But I bet you have to pay to watch each show, and that it's way expensive, given that it uses cell phone networks. ...Ah who am I kidding, they'll just force you to buy a phone and some plan you don't need like they do with everything else. >_<