Phone Bank Day Three
Once again it was a great night talking with viewers on the phone bank from all over the area. Tonight’s topic reported by Donald Jones, was on portable TV’s. Those battery operated sets we use in emergencies, in the kitchen, and tailgating. This is the heart of the ACC and you can believe that tailgating is as popular as red, or the right shade of blue, shirts in the stands.
We wanted to cover this subject because there’s really not many portable sets in the stores at the moment. A couple of months ago, I circled the city’s big box stores and found none on the shelves, but they are becoming available and more choices will soon be found all around.
Unfortunately, they didn’t get a chance to interview yours truly tonight, but I had another option ready for show and tell. These coupon eligible converter boxes are very versatile and only slightly confusing. If you want a box you can connect to an existing portable TV, look for one that has an external wall wart power supply. This is an external adaptor that powers the box from an AC outlet and supplies 12 volts DC to run the box. A handy person can run to Radio Shack, buy the proper connector, build a cable and plug it into any 12 volt car adaptor outlet, or existing 12 volt battery pack. A really handy person could tap into the TV’s built in battery to run the box!
Batteries Plus can also custom build you a battery pack you can use for this purpose, so don’t feel like you have to throw away that old 5″ TV, because with a little ingenuity, it can be saved for the digital future of portable TV.
DTV is a very flexible system and new features can be incorporated as they develop. One major developement that will hit the airwaves next year is M.P.H. or mobile pedestian handhelds. It’s a system stations can add to the DTV signal that allows fairly good resolution on several streams of programming that can be picked up much easier than the high quality pictures beamed into homes. The cool thing is it is robust enough that cell phones will be able to tune in DTV programs even in moving vehicles.
So don’t fret the future of tailgating, it will be around as long as Baseball, Apple Pie and Chevrolets. Oh wait, what was GM’s stock price today?
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