Whatever happened to Handheld TVs?

[@Techmoan]

Correction: At approximately 33 seconds into the video, please substitute the spoken word 'digital' with the intended word 'analog'

You should have commented this with KZbin Pedant :D

[@maxbogaers]

István Nagy what?

[@wolvenar]

Have to hate how poorly digital tv works.. or doesn't in what used to be the semi fringe and fringe areas. Blessing and curse, we not have cell phones and KZbin, and Texhmoan

[@NachoMist]

Also, at the second to last word in this comment, please substitute the typed word 'work' with the intended word 'word'

[@TheSqoou]

Look in the KZbin editor for the Annotations function and type in a little "oops I meant to say ..." and have it pop up for a few seconds at that point.

[@danparish1344]

I wanted a handheld tv as a kid so bad in the early 90’s. I thought they were the coolest thing ever.

[@ETAFan]

In ‘98 or ‘99 I bought an RCA handheld with my Christmas money, it was honestly awesome camping and being able to watch TV, even if there was rarely anything entertaining on. Edit: tried finding the model, turned out it was a Casio TV-880

[@drycat8515]

I had one. The reception was crap. It was more frustrating than it was worth the batteries it cost to run it.

[@yeahisaidit5633]

dan parish I had one from radio shack ! It sucked!

[@tonebonebgky2]

They were getting rid of an old model to make room for the newer version and with my discount I got it (originally like $150 USD) for $35, told them I'd take it not to sale it to anyone, I used that for years and thought I was something lol.

[@dolphinbeta514]

Same

[@YowLife]

I had 2 black and white portable TV's when I was a kid. After school I would climb up to my treehouse and watch PBS kids. Of course I could go in to the house to watch it in color, but it was the novelty of watching TV inside my treehouse that kept me coming back.

[@Novel_Poe]

I have a alba portable CRT TV in colour but the case is bright orange

[@extendoduck]

Yeah I bought one as a teenager WELL after they were obsolete along with a car adapter and one of those Atari 15 in 1 games. Watched the hell out of some PBS (Public Broadcasting System - more or less the sad, withered US version of the BBC) and played that game until the cheap buttons broke.

[@Alexander_l322]

I had a few of them as a kid that I got from boot sales in the uk (swap meets USA) they were cool but the novelty wore off quite quickly because I had a TV in my room anyways.

[@Logan-zp8bi]

Most obsolete thing in that list is a tree house, do you know how psychotic people are about those now? There was a neighbor who kept reporting a family to every single agency he can think of because of a tree house. Its a shame, they love to Maskarade the country as a free country but a wooden box in a tree is outlawed for being, "Dangerous."

[@venom74799]

It was the sense of coziness and independence.

[@RyanPratten]

"Awww I wish I had a handheld digital tv" he said, watching this video on basically a handheld digital tv.

[@rolfs2165]

However, a handheld digital tv has the massive advantage that you don't need to pay your mobile provider to receive program (and get throttled for the rest of the month after an hour or two of watching).

[@frogsshadow4189]

@@rolfs2165 most phones are able to receive radio on them so if your country has mobile tv stations then you can root your phone and get some apps to let you use them. Though they don't really work great.

[@JahBreed]

Hit the little square in the corner for full screen!

[@thrdeye7304]

@@rolfs2165 Not sure where you are but I'm in the US on T-Mobile and they're pretty generous with their unlimited Internet. I'll stream KZbin/Netflix/Hulu/Prime at work all day every day and while the contract does say they will throttle the highest users I've never hit that cap. I know a guy who doesn't even have Internet at home, just uses his phone and he's an IT professional so hardly a light user; he's never hit the cap either. YMMV of course but maybe it's time for a new cell provider?

[@rolfs2165]

@@thrdeye7304 T-Mobile Germany, and lolnope. They throttle down to dial-up speed the second you hit the cap. Unfortunately, the other mobile providers here do the same, so switching won't make a difference.

[@dawnmason9558]

In 1983 I had a Boombox with a 5" black & white TV screen. I was in the Royal Navy so having our own TV was not really allowed but Boomboxes were.

[@mattkennedy6115]

Any port in a storm sailor

[@randyharrigan4790]

I have one in my garage my grandpa gave me as a kid. Used to load 10 (yes 10) D cell batteries in it and carry it around in my backpack when i biked around.

[@MrThe1234guy]

Weren't you cool

[@calidude1114]

We call them Ghetto Blasters in the USA

[@soulsoul386]

Because they might find out the truth and not propaganda

[@KarlBaron]

In addition to South Korea, mobile television is still supported well in Japan. The Japanese standard (ISDB-T "1seg") piggybacks the mobile signal on the regular TV broadcasts so it doesn't require any separate infrastructure, and all the regular broadcast channels are available. Also the Japanese model of the Samsung Galaxy S8+ does support 1seg, although you have to plug in an external antenna wire (kinda like how portable FM radios use the headphone lead as an antenna)

[@MatthewCobalt]

Karl Baron Just to add to your information: Some asisn markets sell local branded phones with built in TV functionality. For instance, the Philippines has the "my|phone" branded television phones that use the same system as South Korea, though the phones are the old keypad type.

[@CesarSchrega]

Same thing in Brazil, since we use ISDB-Tb (a brazilian variation of japanese system).

[@donpalmera]

John / DDFusion Philippines and other places have 1seg too. it's part of the TV standard (1seg refering to it being a single segment in the channel for that boardcast) and not really a Japan thing. Either way I think it's on it's way out now that almost everyone has a phone with KZbin.

[@themixgenius1993]

The problem here in the Philippines, the internet is slow AF, so you can't stream a video properly (unless you're lucky enough to afford an expensive plan). Good thing the local-branded smartphones in the said country (like Starmobile, Cherry Mobile and MyPhone) have an ISDB-T tuner too, not just 1-seg, they're also capable of receiving a full-pledged ISDB-T system (some people call it "Full Seg") just like on the ISDB-T capable TV or set-top-box.

[@ricarleite]

1seg is popular in Brazil (not too much though), and some cell phones support it.

[@stuffmadethen]

Dear Techmoan,I live in South Korea, and the Galaxy S8 sold locally still supports DMB. The headphone cable serves as the antenna, so it has to be plugged in in order to use DMB - there has not been any aerial built into smartphones for years now. My Korean-spec Galaxy S5 was working in the same way. I occasionally still see people watching DMB in public, although streaming services are taking over. With the fastest mobile network in the world, the image quality of streaming surpasses that of DMB a great deal. Oh, and they both work in the subway, too!

[@pspslimicesilver]

M. Jinz My phone is from Korea and it has an aerial however in the US I won't get signal .

[@SomePotato]

I'm a bit disappointed. Using the headphones as an antenna is smart, but seeing all these smartphones with antennas in the Korean subway 3-4 years ago looked pretty cool!

[@pspslimicesilver]

A Google User Yea I like the aerial it looked cool.

[@stuffmadethen]

Very true, blast from the past. Stuff turns into history so quickly. Those antennas are now harder to spot than the occasional appearance of a badass flip-phone.

[@pspslimicesilver]

M. Jinz Agreed I would love to try my phone in korea I never used the aerial here in the US

[@garrettord]

This still sounds like such a good idea. Imagine being able to watch local channels w/o using data

[@jasonklinefelter601]

Garrett I have a device that plugs into my cellphone or tablet and I watch local Digital TV with it. USB HD TV/FM Tuner cards for desktop computers are cool too.

[@garrettord]

Jason Klinefelter what’s it called/where did you get it. Kinda sound good for a roadtrio

[@garrettord]

Jason Klinefelter Roadtrip*

[@jasonklinefelter601]

MyGica is the company that makes the “pad tv tuner” which I use on my old Samsung tablet, and should work with an android device without issues.

[@garrettord]

Jason Klinefelter thank you man!

[@TralfazConstruction]

My wife gave me a Casio/Radio Shack mini color TV for Christmas of 1990. She thought enough of me (understating it actually) to buy the three year extended warranty. I have this TV still and the fading receipt to this day. Some small dust particles infiltrated the inside of the screen over the decades but as my wife passed away in June of '02 I have preserved it as an artifact. I used the little TV many times at work on the overnight shift but it really proved its value when my coworkers and I were huddled around it to watch Operation Desert Shield become Operation Desert Storm throughout early 1991.

[@Ian-qn9jg]

A poignant reminder that every gift can be precious. So sorry you lost your wife

[@marzuqahmed218]

I know it's been five years since you made this comment. But I hope coping well.

[@vapeking466]

Yep I was upset when the US cutoff the analog signals rendering my sony watchman handheld tv useless. I feel like someone owes me.

[@elultimo102]

Try moving where there is no OTA TV available. The gov't should mandate free live streaming of programming from the nearest big city, even with commercials. Anything that Grannie can see on her digital TV in the city, should be live streamed statewide.

[@cjpwolf2436]

IF your Sony Watchman had a A/V in Get a A/V to 3.5 mm jack and a Converter Box.

[@mlaygo]

That last line SCREAMS entitlement

[@marcowulliampopirers2216]

@mlaygo go cry somewhere else pls

[@toomanymarys7355]

@@mlaygo Have you seen his avatar? Of course he is entitled.

[@calicocatz7890]

When I scan, I scan analogue and digital still. It's like reaching out to a distant star with hope.

[@taotzu1339]

What if alien species were trying to reach us with analog signals and we could no longer hear them because we all converted to digital?

[@jothain]

Lol :D

[@Kalvinjj]

Around here they kept transmitting a "Analog signals have stopped broadcasting since (date when they stopped). To continue using your TV, please install a digital receiver box" or such. Dunno if they still do it tho, I think they might have stopped that already.

[@andyc8508]

When I scan, I clocked all the fit birds any blue lights.

[@tenmillionvolts]

And while scanning analogue, the snow and static sound change slightly every so often and your heart skips a beat. Could it be... no :(

[@From305toSH]

I remember those phones with a mobile TV when I lived in South Korea, but the only people I ever seen using it were middle-aged taxi drivers who would watch TV when on the job 😂

[@rebert_reid]

Don't watch TV and drive

[@kekkiko6647]

@@rebert_reid He probably means while they were waiting to receive a call

[@rebert_reid]

@@kekkiko6647 oh

[@lanoche]

I remember back in 2004 when we had to go on a school trip when I was in high school and my buddy brought a portable hand held TV so we could watch a specific anime during the time it aired since we knew we would be in the bus. People called us losers for bringing a tv but once we started watching, those same people that called us losers were pretty much watching the show with us. It was a simpler time, no KZbin and no smart phones or any streaming service at that. Now watching stuff on your phone or tablet is so common and if I told my 15 year old self about our technology now, his head might explode.

[@licentiousdreams]

I remember back in my high-school days bringing my portable colored TV and all my friends gathering around at lunch watching whatever we could at the time. Simpler times... How I miss thee.

[@PaulMurphyMusic]

In 2004 KZbin was only a year away. Streaming and mobile technology has developed a lot since though and no one could have imagined the world we have now, it’s amazing.

[@iknow5413]

@Domen Gregorčič i am 16 and i would love it if analog tv was still around. at least the antenna TV. Since the switchover to digital it is almost impossible to watch TV where i live. i still dont get why the good stuff is turned off and is replaced with something that doesnt work at all. they could have just left it like it was.....

[@swaneknoctic9555]

2004 wasn't exactly 1972 you complete idiot. "It was a simpler time, no KZbin and no smart phones or any streaming service at that." KZbin was founded in 2005 and Facebook in 2004. I think you will find streaming has been available since the 1990s and Smartphones have been around since 2002. I bought my Sony LCD TV in 2006 and Blu-rays came out in 2006. Clearly you were too young in 2004 to remember things properly, yes we also had digital cameras. As I said you sound like you're talking about the 1960's or 70's. KNOB.

[@rhuttrho88]

They should of took it from you two dweebs and smashed it right in front of your face while yelling NEEEEEEEEERDSSSSZZZZ!🤷🏿‍♂️😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅

[@terenas1986]

This is the problem with digital. If you don't have good reception, you can kiss goodbye to watching TV overall. With analog, you can at least see through the layer of static or something...

[@osebu]

That's what I thought the whole time. It's also the same with audio: just a little noise in the background with a analog signal, but a complete mess with a digital signal

[@VinchVolt]

Really, I don't know why people didn't let TVs support both types of signals side-by-side, as digital TV has better picture quality but has more severe picture breakup than analog when the signal's shit. I guess it was just too expensive to hold onto analog after more than half a century.

[@kbbbb7]

Because there is only so much spectrum that exists in the air to accomodate things like TVs, radios, Wifi, mobile phones, and governments have to make decisions about which device gets what or nothing would work as it would all conflict (similar to how people used to have those car FM radio broadcasters which would broadcast and interrupt an FM frequency with its own input). Analogue TV in similar resolution uses more bandwidth than Digital TV, it's why Digital is so much flakier. More channels though provide broadcasters with more options for consumers. That is unless you have less, high-bandwidth channels. Not all media owners wanted multi-channel, in Australia Kerry Packer who owned the biggest network was very against multi-channel and fought against the other network, who saw it as four ways of taking viewers from Kerry rather than just having one way. He insisted on running one full HD channel in MPEG2, using his spectrum that way. (Pretty sure that's what happened, happy to be wrong though) Now, however, HD channels tend to be run using MPEG4 which is more efficient.

[@volundrfrey896]

+kbbbb7 A minor point but in most places it's not the government who made those decisions. It was in countries like North Korea, but not in Europe and America.

[@John_Ridley]

TVs did support both types of signal side by side, for years. They didn't remove analog from the tuners until designs started after there weren't any signals left to receive.

[@jaybanner2905]

"Not a sausage. Completely sausageless."

[@300DBenz]

In England it's a cute saying, in Wisconsin it's a horrifying revelation. "Not a sausage?!? Completely sausageless!?! Nooo!"

[@scannerman777]

:( No sausage

[@bwillythekid8249]

Silly sausage

[@hailbaphomet]

Damnit, now I'm hungry.

[@bruhmoment4378]

Me looking for porn

[@alangriffin8146]

“The stickers look like they were thrown at it from a distance.” I’m losing it.

[@inter_1097]

I miss anolog TV. It was more reliable than digital. Sometimes I could pick up stations a hundred miles away, with Digital, there's one I can't pick up 30 miles from here. I know I know, I can watch stations through my DirecTV, streams, etc but it was a fun hobbby for me, picking up distant stations (DXing). I' kept an antenna (Ariel) conneted to my TV to do just that. A battery operated handheld seemed perfect if there's an emergency and your power is out , but now your choices are a digital signal that barely works (if at all), or using data ($$$$) to watch on your phone. TV stations should have at least temporary anolog signals for said emergencies.

[@moorek1967]

+blackandblue10 I remember one time while living in Ohio, I somehow got the signal from a tv station in Louisiana. It was very snowy, but it was definitely from Louisiana as it showed local advertisements. Analogue was too easy, that's why they went to digitial, so you can't know what is going on elsewhere unless they tell you.

[@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY]

Blondie SL Try NSEDATO Wifi Digital TV tuner from Aliexpress and also ATSC android TV tuner dongle

[@miniskunk]

I have exceeded 1000 miles on more than one occasion while living near Fresno, California picking up a signal from Wichita Falls Texas. The following day while seeing if I could get the Ft Worth signal back, the reflection shifted north to the Dakotas where I picked up a PBS affiliate. Of course the signals weren't solid and coming in and out from totally clear to fuzzy in regular waves lasting only minutes and just long enough to get the station ID. Needless to say I was stoked when I found out where it was coming from. I heard east coast Floridians could sometimes receive New York TV when the conditions are right. Typically I could reliably DX as far as about 200 miles with a good outside antenna and on one occasion the atmospheric reflection was strong enough to receive every Sacramento station at the same 200 mile distance as clearly as local TV with just rabbit ears. This usually required very strong high pressure or high humidity/fog.

[@neoasura]

I beg to differ, at least in my area..you always knew you would get at least 3 channels on Analog Antenna no matter what. Nowadays, everything is so data dependent from the internet, streaming, cloud storage, etc. Which has went down on me more times in one year than my old Antenna TV signal ever did in my lifetime.

[@Rainer67059]

Picture quality has many aspects. In a few aspects analog cinema had a better picture quality than the tubes provided. But in many aspects, analog TV had a better picture (and sound) quality than (analog) cinema. The cinema lobby couldn't stand it. There was a hostile takeover of TV by that lobby. The lobby degraded TV through the process of switchover to digital. Digital TV is worse than analog TV in all aspects where analog TV had been better than film.

[@eddycolangelo]

Little piece of advice from somebody that got stuck with one of those things for a few months. The antennas are supposed to be attached to something made of metal (their base is magnetic) in order to boost their signal. I had a metal bed frame, so I tried using it and the signal was strong enough to pick some channels, and they would, sometimes, look good. But since, as life goes, you could watch that thing for hours whitout problems, but when your favourite show is coming up the signal will go away, one night I got really pissed off and started making some experiments. I was very happy to find that you can make one of these antennas work VERY reliably by putting it inside a pot, and then pointing the pot to the bradcasting station, pretty much like roof antennas are. Eventually I found out that a simple bottle cut as to form a "mirror" covered with aluminum foil would make a very effective replacement for my precious pot.

[@jdatlas4668]

Congrats on re-inventing a parabolic antenna, sounds like you had lots of fun getting there. (This isn’t me being sarcastic, that genuinely sounds like fun and possibly something I’d have gotten up to given time and a similar problem. Am I a nerd? Never mind, don’t answer that.)

[@bentep0511]

In the Philippines, TV phones are still being used and made. Local brand phones are the ones making them and it appeals to a lot of people who can't afford a decent smart phone.

[@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY]

bentep0511 Some of them are analog TV with Worldwide TV tuners (NTSC USA/Japan, PAL-D/K China, PAL-I Hong Kong, PAL-M Brazil, PAL-N Argentina, PAL-B/G Indonesia, etc...

[@KevinScandinavia]

Not to mention data connections aren’t very reliable so TV tuners in a phone are almost a necessity in the Phils.

[@parasatc8183]

Reception is absolutely shit and unreliable though, at least in the countryside.

[@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY]

Kevin Denmark Also 1seg TV tuners from Japan worked in the Philippines.

[@bmhater1283]

But the nation's entire internet sucks shit, its slower than Eritrea and Turkmenistan combined

[@enzowarren9832]

I remember my Sega GameGear came with a TV tuner that turned it into a handheld TV. It never worked, although back in the day I’m sure it functioned fine. I got the whole console with all the accessories around 2008 or 2009 at a garage sale for $5, and the kit had seen some serious use by then. The thought of having a handheld TV fascinated me though.

[@CoolerQ]

Those little aerials you're having trouble with are magnetically mounted. You have to actually place them on a large metal surface for optimum performance.

[@inaoifeble]

I was hoping someone would have pointed this out. They need a ground plane to work. That being said, those little antennas suck. I've taken a few apart and they are really poorly made for the most part.

[@everlastingphelps]

To explain, those antennas are designed to have a metal ground plane. If you put them on a big flat metal surface (traditionally the top of your car) then you will get much better results. Probably not great, but better.

[@JohnGotts]

Just to simplify this explanation, those are car antennas. The car functions as one half of the antenna. The magnetic base is not for convenience, it is the middle part of the antenna. Once either antenna is placed in the center of the roof of a car, it will work decently. There is a more technical explanation, but it's not really necessary.

[@dazednconfused31337]

Yeah I've used the mini-whip on a coffee can and it helps, but I used it mainly for SDR Radio with a £7 'R820 T2' USB TV dongle. FM scanner, Airband, AM, DAB, CB, ADSB plane tracking, pager decoding & SW, HF HAM SSB, with a long wire. It also works as a TV on an Android tablet/phone.

[@PlaystationMasterPS3]

yeah, they look like monopoles, which are best used with a ground plate (to make them equivalent to a dipole twice the length

[@LegoWormNoah101]

This is one of the advantages Analog TV had: the range from the transmitter/repeater was many times better than even the longest-reaching digital signals UPDATE: ATSC 3.0 is rolling out and promises some massive range improvements over ATSC 1.0

[@558vulcanxh]

Another huge advantage of analogue TVs was the excellent Nicam Stereo sound, far better than highly compressed AAC/mp4 we have to suffer today, and also, the colour gamut was better, flowers didn't have their colours clipped on Gardeners world .👍👍

[@LeotheJapaneseLion9890]

ATSC is for the americas. I Live in japan...

[@zoomosis]

9:09: I love that the remote control is so cheap that the buttons are labelled Red Green Yellow Blue instead of them actually being those colours. :D

[@ilya.b]

And also the placement of the number keys is perfect. 1234 5678 90

[@haakonbledsoe]

In korea a lot of cars have TVs in them! It's really cool! You can watch news while your parked or at a light!

[@JacGoudsmit]

The live picture of the Death Star made me think: "That's no moan!"

[@Techmoan]

It took me a while to get this.... But I got there in the end. 👍

[@kruleworld]

it looks brilliant. worth buying the tv just for that..

[@misterkite]

When I first saw it, I thought you had changed the logo to say "Techmoon" and chuckled.

[@nobodyuknow2490]

It's as if a million voices moaned... and were suddenly silenced...

[@pokemon9127]

Jac Goudsmit (groans)

[@KayakTN]

Leadstar hires only the best people to apply stickers to their products.

[@PlaystationMasterPS3]

they have stickers, they have the best stickers

It's the people who make sure the products are properly aligned on the table before the stickers are applied that they skimp on.

[@avd7288]

"The stickers are straight. It's the device that isn't."

[@gregs7519]

As a Cambodian sticker-applier by trade, we put a lot of pride in our work.

[@buddyclem7328]

But, you have to admit, the factory workers have good work ethics, for 7-year-olds.

[@joshhyyym]

Your reviews are some of the most interesting and most honest feeling on the internet. You don't review uninteresting fads (at least not modern ones, hahh) just things you find interesting and think we will too. I think I speak for all of your fans when I say that we are very grateful for that.

[@gregs7519]

Yeah, you won't see any Techmoan fidget spinner reviews here thankfully!

[@ZemanTheMighty]

Maybe the techmoan of the next generation will review fidget spinners

[@marclabelle4253]

I second this. Love your content!

[@BillAnt]

At 0:33 he said "... they turned off the digital signal..." but I think he meant ".. they turned off the analog signal..." Anyone else notice this?

[@wjerame]

The stickers look like they've been thrown on from a distance 😂 I love how calm you roast the shit out if this 🤣

[@minnesotawildfan3152]

I’m 15 now, but when I was 8, I remembered my grandparents had one laying around in the closet and I remembered the only channel they had were the Spanish channels. Over time the channels were going away until I couldn’t find anymore

[@ronyket]

Here in Brazil, mobile TV is very common, most of the low-end and middle-end phones come with the TV tuner, but not the high-end phones, and it's very popular, many people really use it, as here we have the japanese digital TV standard (ISDB-T), which have the mobile TV standard (1seg) already in the standard, and all of the channels work with both the HD and mobile signal. I had two phones with digital TV tuner (had a low-end feature phone back in 2009, and a Xperia Z1), and worked great almost everywhere. Now i have a mobile TV tuner from Tivizen, which works even better than the built in tuner in the phones, as it's wireless, and you can put it in the place which have the better reception, and the app is avaliable for Android and iOS.

[@Keepskatin]

@RonyKet You're from Brazil ,but you look Asian. Must be a high Asia population in Brazil and they brought their technology influence with them.

[@Mackeriv]

I'm from Brazil too and I can also vouch for that, but I also used to see some people watching TV on analog devices, up until recently when they turned that off here too. Still, I think it's slowly getting less popular with time. In the beginning, smart phones were struggling with carrying EITHER 3G functionality or TV tuning capabilities. We can now see who really "won" that battle.

[@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY]

CGITV NTSC Countries like Taiwan, Colombia, Panama, Curacao and Trinidad uses DVB-T/T2. Also DVB-T in both Taiwan and Colombia uses US frequency UHF CH 14 - 69. Same frequency used in Brazil/Philippines ISDB-T and Suriname/USA/South Korean ATSC. Taiwan’s NTSC TV shutdown in 2010 to replace DVB-T broadcasts in 60 Hz. UHF TV 14-69 unlike PAL frequencies 21-69.

[@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY]

CGITV Suriname used DVB-T for test broadcasts and later they changed to ATSC.

[@jazzbox7120]

When I was a child, I always wanted a portable TV. Now I have one!... in the form of a smartphone. And I just watched this video on it, in a car park. With KZbin over 4G and several gigabytes to play with, I don't see myself ever using the portable TV I dreamed about in my youth. Phones are so much nicer. Though for what it's worth, I chose this phone for its TV-like screen. My inner child is happy. XD

[@reddaB]

Victoria Hammond Same. Although my grandfather died recently and I got his small portable b/w tv. I thought it was the single coolest thing when I was wee, I was never allowed to touch it.Now I own it and it picks up nothing :( I still thibk it is cool although it is only cathode ray b/w static.

[@MichaelFlatman]

Victoria Hammond not everyone can have all those gigabytes of data, I have 1.2,its not bad for £7.50 tho

[@coolelectronics1759]

wow how the word phone has gotten a whole new meaning as well! I gues back in the 80 having a phone would sound inferior to having a TV? but now look what all the telephone does!amazing

[@reddaB]

NowForTheTruth I was thinking of somehow using it to show pip boy on fallout if there was a mod for that to be shown on a separate screen. Or maybe in artworks.Either way I am gonna figure out a way of converting hdmi to rf so I can watch dvds on it or something just for fun.

[@moonmanvic]

Victoria Hammond Beat me to it.

[@dakotahrickard]

Obviously, when it works well, it's great, but I really kind of miss the analogue TV signals. I used to have a scanner as a kid, and it thrilled me when I realized I could listen to television on the scanner. Also, you had to deal with snowy audio and picture, but analogue tv was at least watchable with spotty signal. Digital is much less so. I suppose it's like most of the digital modes of radio technology: it allows greater information at lesser bandwidth or lower power, but the tradeoff is packet loss rendering received information useless in digital modes relative to rendering it extremely noisy in analogue ones.

[@aspinia]

in some countries like mine, analogue signal is still working, for some reason I managed to syntonize the video game signal from a neighboar I guess, kind of weird, I was just messing around with the antenna and suddenly I managed to get some space shooter gameplay.

[@luisteixeira00]

Here in Portugal, all our ISPs have Android and iOS apps that let you watch close to 200 channels, and usually it doesn't consume mobile data. So I guess that, in a way, that's a natural successor of the handheld TV.

[@Thorpe]

Net neutrality btfo in Portugal then.

[@vmelkon]

+Luis Teixeira: What does your ISP have to do with portable devices? ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. That's internet for your home.

[@luisteixeira00]

Vrej Egon Spengler Here, all ISPs have mobile plans, so most people use the same company for both. So if you do use the same for both services, you can watch any channel using mobile data without limits.

[@encycl07pedia-]

You're lucky. Here in the US while there are a lot of apps, they ALL require you to sign in with a cable provider, even if it's a free broadcast channel. It's so shitty how data carriers (cable, ISP, and phone) screw over their customers here with geographic monopolies.

[@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY]

SIANO DVB-T/ISDB-T/Tb Wifi Digital TV receiver. Downloadable app from iOS and Android. No internet required

[@greenaum]

Weirdly I keep having dreams where there are old B&W portable TVs that still work, because for some reason they kept broadcasting 1 or 2 channels still on analogue. Yes, most of my dreams ARE this fascinating, thank you for asking.

[@mikeblatzheim2797]

@Shufei In the Germany-Netherlands-Belgium border region, my TV just last year still managed to pick up 32 analog channels, compared to 150 digital ones.

[@mandarin1257]

@@mikeblatzheim2797 No way! I live in Belgium, please tell me if you can recieve at least one station!

[@God-yb2cg]

I dream with CRTs sometimes too xD

[@gcf7175]

I had the same dream only instead of a TV it was my Mom. And Instead of watching Hee Haw reruns she blowing a donkey.

[@mandarin1257]

@@gcf7175 donkey literally or as a metaphor for an asshole?

[@superakman14]

Completely sausageless is a great expression.

[@CatsMeowPaw]

Not a sausage! I like British sayings.

[@buddyclem7328]

I think it's hilarious, even though I have no idea what it means! In America, the only expression we have about sausage is a "sausage fest" which probably means "...something totally different!" to quote Monty Python.

[@hschokker86]

I remember when I was young and had my first game console, the Sega game gear. There was a tv tuner extension for it that I was never able to get my hands on. It was way to expensive new and I only ever found 1 second hand and the seller stopped responding to me after agreeing on price. :'(

[@mikaellauring5025]

Damn. I had a friend who had one. It was cool.

[@Hamachingo]

I had one of those as a teenager, got it from the classifieds. The tip of the tuner's antenna was broken off when I got it but you could just plug a TV cable right into the antenna tube. Good times. I probably still have it in my parents's place.

[@Coylee91]

There's one in a second hand video game shop in my hometown, still in the original box. The GameGear was amazing, the back-lit colour screen was about a decade ahead of Nintendo.

[@jamesrayner5853]

I had 1 of them as kid my mom bought it for a Christmas gift it was neat to have got all the local channels on it we're better than the TV with rabbit ears

[@faustinuskaryadi6610]

Japanese got Oneseg TV Tuner for Sony PSP and Nintendo DS.

[@robdegoyim4023]

Forget the TV, where can I get one of those Death Star balls?

[@greenaum]

Gakken Worldeye, our man did a review of it a while ago. Running a custom-made video by one of the subscribers here, which he made available to download. I don't know the URL, do some work yourself!

[@andywolan]

I think the biggest problem was the fact that a separate network had to be built for hand-helds. The old analog receivers could tune into the normal tv signal your big tv would use. That is why the old handhelds were great. With digital, you can build a tuners small enough for a hand held but the radio transmission standard was not great for units with small antennas or where the unit was roaming like a person watching tv in a car. Both the us and European dtv systems suffered this problem. Japan’s dtv standard on the other hand is different. They used the lessons learned from the us and European and rolled out a 3rd gen system called 7-seg. (Europe glad 1st gen and Us 2nd gen.) the standard allowed for tv signals to be received by mobile devices like the South Korean phones. When I was in japan in 2008 I was able to play with such a unit at a store and it worked well inside a building. I personally saw people watching tv on the phones on a bus. The 7-seg standard was designed so the radio signal would be received via a smaller antenna (I think) and would work when user was moving. To summarize 7-seg did not suffer from many on signal drop issues with digital tv signals as the us and European standards. Analog tv signals had more tolerance to signal drop, etc and were thus seems “ usable”. Such portable dtv units are still sold here in the us. Heck, I have one. But I think 4g pretty such wiped out any interest here in the us.

[@dant.3505]

I have a "HDTV" handheld TV and the reception is crummy unless the signal is very strong or use large TV antenna. It can still possibly be useful but not for watching while walking/portable use

[@syntaxerror9994]

Is the UK standard as bad as the US? Image wise, its good... but being a digital signal its extremely vulnerable to interference. Basically if you grew up in an area with a so-so tv analogue signal that was watchable you got shafted when everything went digital.

[@jackfrost9728]

Yes, the so-so analog signal was viewable, but the digital signal needed a powered antenna to get it at all.

[@ΑΡΗΣΚΟΡΝΑΡΑΚΗΣ]

Jack Frost I've put a signal amplifier.

[@jackfrost9728]

Yes i got one too, a powered antenna, but I live so far out when it rains the signal goes away, and if even foggy it goes out too.

[@dingo137]

It's a bit more dependent on having a good aerial installation (you're less likely to get away with a set top aerial) but works pretty well on the whole. With a decent rooftop or loft aerial and good quality cabling It works fine in everywhere I've lived.

[@sailing_raptor]

It's rubbish. We've spent a fortune trying to get a consistent picture: new aerials, signal amplifiers, had the cabling checked and re-checked etc. The problem is that we get a decent picture in HD or SD for a while and then it just drops out altogether or badly pixelates.

[@gilbertsprojects2954]

When “lcd picture frames” were a thing (about 10+ years ago) I bought my mother-in-law one as a present and that had a DVB-t tuner in it, in fact it looked almost identical to the one in this video but didn’t have built in battery and the menu was a lot more basic. I think it was around £15-20.

[@RetroCore]

Great video but with one big gap. Here in Japan we've been using OneSeg digital TV for about 10 years. The first system was low quality at about 15fps. Around 5 years ago a new updated system came out with full HD image at 30fps and digital menus, subtitles, recording and the rest of it such as interactive options. The phone I'm typing this on also have the HD OneSeg system. It's a Xperia ZL2.

[@buddyclem7328]

Retro Core Japan always gets the coolest stuff! But, seriously, you know how to solve problems. Reliable electronics, durable cars, trains that are always on time, and lots more. I would like to think that I would fit in there. Things are much different in the United States.

[@MACTEP_CHOB]

Grass is always greener on the other side

[@AsianTheDomination]

weeb

[@meetoo594]

I have an imported Japanese cellphone with dtv and a little telescopic aerial built in. It can also receive ota emergency broadcasts like tsunami warnings via the tuner. Of coarse it doesn't work outside japan although im willing to bet there's a way to flash it to receive other standards as all it is is a software defined radio.

[@mvsv12]

In Brazil we have the 1seg standard too. Newer phones now came with full ISDB support so we can watch full hd channels, my Moto G5 Plus have full hd digital tv tunner

[@Joe-pz9no]

Both antennas have magnetic bases therefore need to be attatched to metal for a decent earth just like cb radio antennas.

[@AureliusR]

not really true.

[@jdatlas4668]

@Michael Persico ...this is terrestrial over the air broadcasts, not satellite.

[@A-ELL]

@@jdatlas4668 And your point is?

[@A-ELL]

@@AureliusR Yes it is. They are basic ground plane antennas that would have worked much better if stuck on the car roof. Unless you would care to elaborate on your eloquent hypothesis.

[@jdatlas4668]

@@A-ELL I’d tell you except I’ve no clue what the deleted comment I replied to was saying. So honestly, no idea.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I miss those days when we used portable TVs to watch our fave programs while away from our residence

[@customerservice9602]

Your portable TV now fits in your pocket and also is a camera a video recorder and navigation system. It also can send and receive calls, if you must. 📱📱📱

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

@@customerservice9602 The one I used before doesn't requires me to register online and search for either wifi signal or mobile data. Instead, it searches analog signals among LHF, VHF or UHF and it is free.

[@katakisLives]

watching the world snooker final outdoors on my pocket tv! good times

[@customerservice9602]

^^^ Just LOL @ watching snooker... 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[@vinceparke5740]

Who says "residence"?

[@JoeJ-8282]

The REAL main reason that portable "freeview" TV isn't available anywhere anymore, (especially on cellphones), is that the companies can't make any profits off of charging a monthly subscription fee for the service!... Nowadays it's all about profits and greed, not about offering really cool tech to the general public for free, especially not for the long term!... It's the same kind of thing that has happened with stuff like computer printers, etc., where the device itself is a really cheap initial investment, seemingly a great deal, but it's the ridiculous cost of the extremely tiny capacity ink cartridges where the companies make the real money off of you! It's really rather disgusting!

[@tbthegr81]

What happened to handheld TV's? Answer: We got youtube on smartphone and haven't looked back.

[@SamoriahGames]

tfw you replace the old gods with new gods and nobody bats an eye

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

taledarkside you can use iplayer and other programs on your phone in the uk to watch live local channels

[@victornewman9547]

taledarkside Do people still watch local TV? Why?

[@KawaiiCat2]

Pretty much what I was gonna say. Also tablets.

[@markplott4820]

Torbjorn - you cant watch LIVE HDTV on youtube unless someone streems it.......you can get a DTV mobile receiver or in America you will soon get Live HDTV broadcasts with your smartphone or mobile device.

[@dsandoval9396]

15:47 "HUNG PARLIAMENT"!?! WOW, their wives must really be singing their husband's praises!

[@eddiegavidia134]

Some dude on hoarders was using a handheld television

[@patrickgerth4570]

I think the whole motivation in switching to the digital broadcast is that it would be harder to receive the broadcast. Forcing people to pay for cable or a streaming service.

[@Nozomu564]

Will you make "Whatever happened to TVs"? I remember it being quite a big thing in the past.

[@josephatnip2398]

I have a TV but I have free cable in my apartment but I mostly use it for movies with Kodi so I can watch the newest pirated movies released and of course stuff for my kids

[@troodon1096]

I own a television, but it's really just a monitor for my DVD player. I almost never watch broadcast television anymore, and only watch cable television when I'm over at my parents' house doing laundry.

[@EssenceofPureFlavor]

You're smoking crack if you think broadcast television ISN'T dying...

[@RWBHere]

martialimitator Broadcasts will continue, but U.K. broadcasters are gradually transferring to online transmissions. It's reasonable to assume that OTA broadcasts will be phased out completely one day, since the hardware overheads for the broadcasters are much lower if the internet is used. No need to maintain aerial masts, transmitter rooms, microwave links, pay for servicing personnel, their transport, etc. Substitute all of that for a decent network feed, leased server space and bandwidth, and the costs are much lower.

[@MartyM.]

I remember some of the very first ones that came out in the 1980s I think it was. They had a display tilted at an angle inside at the top for some reason. Radio Shack sold them. They would have been ok, but back then LCD panels were badly washed out and had a pretty bad rerfresh rate (the pixels were blurry when changing - same problem for handheld game systems too). I owned one of the first 1990s models when the price finally went down around $100. More than anything, I couldn't use the one I got because no signal much at all to pick up. Like many American towns there wasn't a good TV station anywhere close enough so there was a constant fight to try to get a decent signal. Same for FM radio where I lived - on a good day I could get a decent signal from Atlanta. A good idea in principle, but just not workable in reality.

[@triode1212]

They were not LCD screens but small CRTs. The tilt at the top is the indication as to why it was a CRT.

[@MartyM.]

@@triode1212 Hi there, yes the originals were CRTs, and some models still were at the time that I worked at a Radio Shack franchise (I connected a Super Nintendo to one of those to play games while working), but the one I had was LCD. They were also sold under other brands as well.

[@MartyM.]

I erroneously said they were tilted: let me correct that, as the LCD models were "flat" and didn't have that. Not sure how I got it mixed up (must have remembered some old sales flyers and made that mistake, ha ha.)

[@evonneokafor]

Had one in 1999 -2000 was so useful when I was in homeless place. It gave me peace of mind.

[@MFunkibut]

My experience with over-the-air digital in the USA was that the signal was very finicky. I tried several small antennas in a basement for the mother-in-law and got broken-up gibberish. Went bigtime, installed a fullblown aerial in my attic [I ain't going on the roof y'all] and get like 100 channels perfectly. Digital is digital - when it works it's perfect. When you're one bit off you know it error-correctly parity algos. and all.

[@AtomicBoo]

William W Powell that's so nice that you get like 100 channels without paying anything to a TV provider, here in Mexico we have like 10 free digital channels, everything else is locked through a TV provider (direct TV, sky, etc)

[@mickeymouse12678]

Since when do 100 public TV channels even broadcast in one location in the US that isn't New York or something? I can get maybe 20 max.

[@buddyclem7328]

Guru Laghima Maybe he does live in NYC or LA or along the Mexican or Canadian border, or he is using a little hyperbole. In my metro area of about 100k, we have between 10 and 20 channels, only several aren't real channels, like weather tower cameras, and live radar feeds. I use cable, but it looks like a viable alternative for broadcast TV.

[@gt5228z]

Buddy Clem many of the channels are just duplicates. Like you might get a local NBC from one city and another from another city. Most of the programming is still the same with exception to the local news/weather.

[@gt5228z]

Buddy Clem in my rural Midwestern american area area, you can pickup 30-40 channels assuming you have a decent antenna instslled with plenty of height.

[@gregoriojrgarcia6432]

I remember sneaking in a handheld TV to school to watch the world cup, good times

[@Nadia1989]

I remember my classmates at the back of the classroom with a Walkman or a portable radio

[@chillpill4936]

the sound of digital TV breaking up is one of the most annoying sounds I've ever heard.

[@mspenrice]

tellingall howitis - there's only one thing worse... DAB breaking up.

[@beware_the_moose]

I don't quite know why the random squeaks and sputtering has to be at twice the volume of the normal audio. You would think the error correction would figure out it's dodgy and just mute it!

[@mspenrice]

Tim Clarke that's what CD players do, if a particular chunk of data can't be read it patches over it simply by either repeating the last valid one (hence the glitchy ticky noise) or just interpolated the samples between the last valid value and the next available (so acting like a momentary very low pass filter)... Too many of those in a row and it just goes silent. At least, that's how it's specified, it's not often implemented properly! You get more noise and jittery output than you should get, usually. But digital audio and video has FAR more error checking in it than audio CD does... It should be very obvious whether data is valid or not. I think it must just be that the functionality is expensive to implement somehow, so most decoder chips don't include it.

[@harrylonsdale3142]

mspenrice my Roberts does that, shudder

[@iaincowell9747]

zx spectrum games loading.

[@Guerilla_G]

When I was a kid having a portable TV was the most space age intense flex you could have, I remember being nostalgic to get that feeling back and looking into buying one of these recently, then I realised that I have a smartphone and I do it all the time anyway. How times have changed.

[@lsilvaj]

Hey Techmoan, your channel is really one of the best, I remember watching your reviews about those tiny hidden cameras. Thank you very much and success forever! From Brazil.

[@AndersEngerJensen]

Hehe, I see you found a use for the Death Star clip I made for you. It turned out pretty good, didn't it? :D

[@Techmoan]

Yes it's great, thanks for putting this together.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

That was very distracting, but in a great way. Great work!

[@mathiasbraunling368]

This looks so amazing!

[@mgabrysSF]

If the Techmoan logo wasn't animated it might be a smidge less distracting but I love the deathstar itself. Good work tho, just a nitpick to push it into the background more.

[@dansolo9978]

At first I thought it was Targeting Vectors from the X-Wings Head Up Display... [;)]

[@williamyeong69]

RIP analog TV in Malaysia Switching start from 31 October 2019 nationwide. The interesting fact is the name for the DVB in Malaysia is called freeview as well.

[@caffeinepizza]

I’m not sure why, Mat, but your outro song gives me this strange, nostalgic, warm feeling. If only I could experience again those feelings for real I once did years ago. Been a fan of yours for years.

[@Asrok00]

I remember people watching professional starcraft games on the subway in Seoul Korea on their phones using dmb. Today dmb is incredibly uncommon here because everyone has high speed unlimited internet. There is no point in paying for digital dmb tv when you can get anything available on the internet on the newest phones.

[@Shineyongs.]

Nowadays, there are people watching DMB in KBO relay.

[@ravijung]

arirang

[@deus_ex_machina_]

Allilang I guess you could call it...A dmb move!

[@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY]

Allilang Also ATSC LCD TVs in South Korea.

[@rallyboyd7151]

I had a cell phone that had an antenna and could watch about 30 channels under Verizon wireless back in like 2007 I think.

[@dwC4u]

Those magnetic base antennas are meant to sit on a large, metal surface like the roof of your car. The metal surface acts as a ground plane. Without that ground plane your antenna isn't going to work to it's full potential. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_plane

[@rambo1152]

Actually, most main stations in the UK radiate horizontally polarized signals. I noticed he was getting "Made in Liverpool" on LCN 7 so he is probably receiving horizontally polarized signals from Winter Hill. The little aerial would probably work better on its side.

[@mwbgaming28]

I once had an analog handheld TV, these days KZbin is my TV channel, my phone is the receiver and my unlimited data plan is my antenna

[@nigelh3253]

I agree, the mobile phone on unlimited internet (£25/mth in UK on some networks) does what handheld TV did.

[@mwbgaming28]

@@nigelh3253 I pay $199AUD per month for my plan, but I get gigabit 4G and 5G download speeds

[@equid0x]

I have an ATSC version very similar to this. On mine, the antenna was magnetic and worked substantially better when stuck to something. Unfortunately, after many years of extremely light usage the unit will no longer tune anything. When new, the battery lasted at least a couple hours.

[@GURken]

Who needs TV? There's no Techmoan there!

[@ViralKiller]

ah yes I remember the days I used to watch TV

[@TheWolfiet]

115 channels over air? WOW

[@katakisLives]

that includes rubbish channels you'd never watch like QVC

[@thewraith1174]

That still impressive as I only get 35 or so and some are duplicated😕

[@equid0x]

We've got over 80 here in Las Vegas but most are crap or religious.

[@God-yb2cg]

In Portugal we only get 7, one of them being the parliament channel that only broadcasts a placeholder image 90% of the time. No HD either. Back in analogue days there were only 4 channels, back in my childhood everyone had cable but me ;_;

[@hunterbeachcowkk7hqy786]

I'm just happy I get fox

[@Broken_robot1986]

Falls between two stools! Love that, never heard it before. I wonder why small antennas are so awful for digital TV. I would expect them to be worse for sure, but they seem to be good for nothing.

[@sador111]

WHERE ARE ANNOYING CHILDISH NOT-FUNNY MUPPETS?! I LOVE THEM

[@youtou721]

Japan still broadcasts its mobile TV signal right now, and devices supporting 1seg signal can be find easily even in today - GPS Navigator, Japan-based phone before 2021, or even handheld TV and radio. Some of these devices even supports Full seg (the one uses for home TV) reception, but might requires a separate antenna.

[@АлексейСтечкин-щ4ь]

*Same situation with DMB.

[@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY]

FULLSEG and also 1SEG, no problem by moving ISDB-T receiver into another..

[@zeddy675]

Seems you completely forgot about Japan where we had digital TV on cellphones much before 10 years ago (I remember mine, very useful). Nowadays you still can find models having it. Also, most of the (stock or not) Car Entertainment Systems, today too, Japanese or even German, can receive digital TV on the dashboard screen. I see everyday people watching TV while driving (I don't say it's a good idea though). Otherwise very nice video. I remember having the model you showed back in the 80s.

[@sparticus214]

zeddy1976 Oh yes the reason is Japan is just more advanced but Google came bring this technology across the ocean and evolve it with American software. Thus Android with created and had to evolve to the point where it was in the best interest for any civilized Nation to get on board with Google.

[@FilFee]

In the Czech Republic, you used to be able to watch the Publicly funded ČT1, ČT2, ČT24 and ČTsport on DVB-H compatible devices. The service was shut down on 1. 1. 2020, just like DVB-T in favour of DVB-T2.

[@SvenSchumacher]

The arial need to have a groundplane. So it might work at a car-roof or another metallic surface. Wood, plastic, ... will not provide ground.

[@mikeangelo6667]

Kind of reminds me of the old crystal radios, in that we would connect the antenna to a pipe or even the radiator.

[@Timothan]

hence the magnet

[@markplott4820]

Sven - I have a Telescopic center loaded antenna, it works great for Receiving DX signals as well as Transmitting, best of all No Ground Plane needed.

[@Arctic740]

I miss analog tv

[@turtmastert3545]

id give up highdef over the air tv, for the higher signal strength of analog tv

[@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY]

I also have portable FM Transmitter (Both Hanrongda HRD-808/831) (60.0 MHz - 76.0 MHz - 87.0 MHz - 108.0 MHz). and an analog radio (Degen DE1128, Happy CS-106, Tecsun R-1012) with wide FM tuner (50/64 MHz - 108 MHz) AM: 522-1710 kHz and shortwave 2.3-23 MHz, World tuning IBOC HD Radio (Sparc SHD-TX2), DAB portable radios (Full Join PPM001), and NOAA Weatherband radio. Another Wifi TV tuners (ATSC/ISDB-T /DVB-T) like Siano Digital TV, and NSEDATO Wifi Digital TV for iPhone/iPad and Android phones and tablets.

[@parasatc8183]

Erik Bakker Yeah but if anything things should always be function over form. Being from the tropics in a country susceptible to being hit by rains and typhoons, when we used a digital box, we couldn't watch anything. We switched to analogue when it no longer cost around $113 to get cable in our home and we've never had that problem ever since. Sucks to see we'll be switching over a few years from now though.

[@moonmanvic]

computers with nikita nikita I don't not one bit.

[@petermirtitsch1235]

Erik Bakker thing is, with analogue, you could get the worst signal ever and you could still watch. With digital, a poor signal gets you glitches then nothing.

[@RGC198]

Thanks for your interesting and informative video. I purchased a DSE (Dick Smith Electronics) portable digital TV some years back. It does work, but not much inside moving vehicles. The only way to check reception when travelling is to stop at a place and then the digital TV can be received. We really need working hand held digital TVs especially here in Australia, where all portable digital TV' receivers have since completely disappeared off the market. For an antenna, I use a separate Tandy portable battery operated amplified antenna, which also is no longer available.

[@Kno_Buddy]

In America the only channels that still put out an Analog signal along with digital are local broadcast channels which would be channel 2 for local news and a handful of other channels, but you have to be close enough to the broadcast antenna.

[@digitalgods5568]

That's no moon behind you ...."It's a trap!"

[@LakeNipissing]

Certainly a handheld TV solved a major issue: "Ten minutes to Wapner"..... "Five minutes to Wapner"..... "Uh-Oh, only two minutes to Wapner!"

[@PerplexiaX]

LakeNipissing ... but we got to go get my underwear... Yeah, YEAH!!! V _ E _ R _ N!!! LOL :-)

[@AH-64Apacheattackhelicopter]

The early 2000s were a weird time to grow up in i remember how suddenly things changed fast

[@meandmyEV]

Also true for those of us that were grown during that time. I started the 2000s with a clunky plastic phone that was too big to fit in my pocket and came with 30 minutes of call time a month and a VHS camcorder that looked like something from a TV studio. I ended the decade with a smartphone that could do so much more.

[@PartnershipsForYou]

I was born around 1996 and grew up with the rapidly accelerating technology. When I was 7, video nows were all the rage, a few year later, iPods came out and changed it all. It was mind blowing seeing how fast us humans NEEDED data, that we changed our zeitgeist to suite us.

[@cindydott452]

That's puberty for ya!🤣

[@kriskeilman2087]

I bought a Philips portable dvd player/TV tuner for 75 bucks about 10 years ago. Now it is selling for 300 bucks on ebay. It still works and the TV tuner works surprisingly well. I used it for 2 months when I moved into my new place.

[@Prosegoldmusic]

i thought you were gonna say why don’t they make pocket tv’s anymore ? “ they do.... they’re called i phones “

[@VanAleph]

I see you got some custom content running on your Worldeye. Nice!

[@sciencepuptheamericanjoe5812]

I personally would like a portable TV. I don't want to waste data on a phone during travel; I just would like a portable TV that plays shows through an antenna.

[@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY]

Buy a Wifi powered DTV receiver (ATSC for USA/Suriname/South Korea/Canada/Mexico) for your smartphone or tablet (iOS or Android). You can watch digital ota TV broadcasts via wifi connected to DTV receiver on your tablet or smartphone. Here in the Philippines, we have an ISDB-T/1seg wifi DTV receiver for mobile devices (ios and android)

[@Katzelle3]

Are data caps still a necessity though? I heard some time before 2017 that the FCC wanted to ban them. I wonder what happened. Without data caps, we could have services like eMBMS which use LTE for TV broadcasts.

[@Katzelle3]

Francis Litan My TV can stream the channel it is currently on, to my phone using a smart remote app. It has a terrestrial and a satellite receiver.

[@jimmyfaustjr7373]

I just wanna see the news and the judge shows lol

[@GodaiNoBaka]

@Katzelle3: Don't count on that happening anytime soon. The FCC is under new leadership now, and they very much favor industry over consumers. Maybe in 2021 or so.

[@Rick-vm8bl]

My folks had an old CRT portable from the 1960s with about a 10" screen, it had a big battery cliped to the back, huge telescopic arial, and a radio dial on the bottom. Worked flawlessly all the way up until 2007.

[@rEdf196]

Radio Shack issued a few short lived LCD based handheld TV,s in the mid 1980's

[@buddyclem7328]

rEdf196 I think I still have one!

[@aaalexxx900]

here in Italy all TV channel are in digital, but if you use an rtl-sdr and Aerial TV you can watch TV on your smartphone (android only)

[@giammyzanna]

quale app? sto provando da qualche giorno ma non ne trovo una decente

[@aaalexxx900]

giammyzanna aerialtv.eu

[@radioboy7880]

The only tv in my house is a 1970's console tv with a digital to analog converter and rabbit ears antennae

[@bombasticbuster9340]

Kelpo Gaming What kind of tv? They were built way better. Whats interesting is the sdtv show look better on an old tv!

[@vmelkon]

+Kelpo Gaming: I also have a CRT TV with a HomeWorX digital to analog converter. I bought my TV just when they were phasing them out at Walmart. I have also picked up a few CRT TVs my neighbors were throwing away.

[@KlingonCaptain]

I wonder if I can get something like this here in North America?

[@QuantumRift]

I have two digital RCA handheld TVs I picked up at Big Lots for about $70 each a few years ago. Each one used six 1.5v AA batts and I use rechargeable batts. We live about 25 miles from the Downtown area near us, and during the power outages we've had, they've performed quite nicely.

[@arctic-1878]

Portable TV with 20 minute battery life and you need to plug it into your house antenna. Where can i buy this thing?

[@dougie8010]

Details on the Death Star please!!

[@tractorgt]

You have one of the greatest channels in this format! Thanks sir! 🤘

[@jorisbonson386]

0:33 they turned off the digital signal in the UK!??? Where am I receiving mine from then exactly 😮

[@dennisolof9994]

Great video and here is some additional information for you Techmoan. 1. Use MKVToolnix program to "split" large mkv files over 4Gb, that way you can store the stuff you have on your internal storage on whatever device you have. A way of getting around the FAT32 file size limitation. Program is free and easy to use. 2. DVB-H was a good technology but the main problem was coverage, there are to few masts and the signal is to weak. It would have required building more masts for better coverage, just like you have for the mobile phone networks. You had problems with reception and it only works in some places as you said. Nobody is going to walk around with a YAGI antenna in order to watch TV on a smart phone !!! But then again lots of smart phones do not even have FM-radio built in. If there is going to be anything of this EU will have to force manufacturers to include DVB+ chips into all smartphones, transition over to DVB+ radio and expand coverage so it works underground on the tube and else where. Also for FM reception in a smartphone you need a 3.5 jack (or 2.5 if they had used that) plus headphones as that is the antenna used for reception. But a lot of phones do not even have that any more. No wonder DVB-H died out, and no wonder radio is going the same way. Everyone is talking about streaming but for radio the old FM network is still the better technology even if it does go digital in the future. Always on, always there if you need to listen to it. Streaming only works if the mobile phone network and internet works, back in the day radio was the most important medium for information during war times etc. And it still is, streaming is better for some things but it will never defeat radio ! Great video as always, such great content on your channel :-)

[@snowdog03]

Dennis Olof My cheapo LG Aristo came with an FM tuner pre-installed by the service provider. (MetroPCS)

[@dennisolof9994]

Nice. Unfortunately it does not matter if you have a cheap or expensive phone. Some have FM-radio chip and others not. Why I do not know but it is probably not expensive to include it during construction of the phone. The other problem is that the 3.5 jack is going away or some phones do not have it, and then you do not have a antenna to get reception of FM. Where we will end up in the future I do not know.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Many chipsets like Snapdragon included the FM tuner capabilities, but many manufacturers would disable them. I don't know why, maybe they'd have to pay for extra testing or licensing or something. But people who installed custom firmware onto Android devices often found they got a free FM radio for their trouble!

[@SenileOtaku]

The cellular companies wouldn't WANT "smart"phones to have DVB+ chips. That would mean you might be able to watch video without being REAMED on data charges.

[@BlastsMods]

I remember getting a portable tv from a car boot sale for £1, used it loads, worked pretty well.

[@CreepebrineMC]

RIP Analog television here in Germany: Cable: 2018 Antenna: 2011 Thats how they make money today.

[@acmenipponair]

No, that's how the private media companies kill themselves, in making their HD programs subscription only - nobody would ever want to buy an HD+ box for jungle camp

[@windowsxseven]

Mary Gordon ok boomer

[@deathstrike]

Guess I'm a boomer too. I actually miss analog, always trying to adjust the antenna only to get a static filled but somewhat legible picture. Unlike digital you get a lot of artifact and breakdown and it just goes dark. I think they could have still found a method of providing analog with the digital broadcast but the US really was in a hurry and killed it here in the States. Where I live you can occasionally get an analog station from Mexico if you got a large antenna.

[@anotherhumanbeingblyat8935]

Wher i live in a suburbs in ontario, we got antenna analog tv cut off in like late 2012/early 2013 or something i can't remember exactly

[@jcdenton2819]

Well, they killed over-the-air analog TV in Russia in 2018, but there is still premium subscription to cable, dunno for how long though.

[@Khorne_of_the_Hill]

why did they think a whole new format just for mobile TVs was needed in the first place?

[@mgabrysSF]

Ok, at first I wasn't a fan of the puppets afterwards - now I miss them. God I'm persnickety.

[@martinda7446]

Dear old Clive Sinclair was the force behind the miniature TV since the mid 1960s. He loved, as we know, to make things as compact as possible. The hand held TV was something really sci fi in the 50s and 60s. He paid for an advertisement in the technical journals during 1967 showing the Sinclair miniature portable television, being held in the hand of the viewer. This may have been a mock up, and I'm not sure what his intention was. This one though never saw the light of day. He would have stumbled over the usual technical issues. Battery life, visibility in daylight, reception with the constant movement...So much R and D later... He managed to make a proper working TV after ten years, unfortunately a tiny B&W screen was no longer in the sci fi realm and Sinclair was maybe five years too late to capture the imagination. He didn't give up and another followed, smaller and even more portable with the extraordinary 2 inch 90 degree 'bendy' tube technology developed purely for this application. A man ahead of his time. Edit: Except he wasn't with the TVs was he? LCD was arriving to steal the win. The 'Matchbox' radio. First truly pocketable calculator. The Black Watch digital LED watch. First PWM amplifier for audio. First computer for under £130. First computer under £40 First colour computer under £100 Miniature printers and removable high density storage devices The battery powered personal transport...Just 40 years too early??

[@AureliusR]

He didn't invent the first pocket calculator. Also wasn't the first watch. And he certainly didn't invent Class D amplifiers. And a bunch of the other stuff you listed, he made them affordable by making them cheap and crap. Have you ever actually tried to USE a ZX80 or ZX81? It's a royal pain in the butt. I really don't get why people like Sinclair so much... he wasted tons of money on stupid projects that had zero chance of working in the actual market/real world. His disciples were the ones that came up with the useful stuff.

[@martinda7446]

@@AureliusR Notice I chose my words carefully. The first TRULY pocket calculator. THE black watch (made no claims at all). FIRST PWM amp for AUDIO (it was just that first marketed as such). I know exactly what Sinclair was. I know how crap his products can be, as I've owned most of them. He was an innovator and a fine engineer - his publications make that clear. As I'm sure you know that is how he earned his first wage, by writing technical books. I like him, even if he wasn't a particularly likeable man by all accounts. That is all. There were no errors in my comment. Just your misinterpretation.

[@martinda7446]

@@AureliusR I have a Cambridge MK14 bought from new in 1978. I have a ZX80 sitting in its original packing box. I've owned a few ZX81s and a Spectrum is within reach. It is not a matter of being a 'pain in the butt' it is a matter of design and innovation. He himself was both a businessman and an original gifted engineer. It is a combination that is unusual. He wasted money on a few things, stuff that was badly made and got returned or things that were a bit useless. His TVs came a couple of years late. He was developing them since the mid 60s. IF..He had managed to introduce a miniature TV in the early seventies he would have made a huge success - he didn't. His battery vehicles...How do you think they would be looked at today? Also I like Omega Speedmasters. Minis. Triumphs. Radfords, Leaks, Thorens, Alan Blumlein, E H Armstrong, Faraday, Maxwell, Newton, Fritz Lang, Stanley Kubrick, Dumas, john Wyndham, Dickens...etc..Just to point out I have a lot of interests and Sinclair is a minor one.

[@unhban]

Techmoan From where you live in the UK I'm pretty sure you'll be getting the digital signal from Winter Hill, which is horizontally polarised. You always had the aerial vertically polarised, and there's a lot of loss of signal between the two. Possibly reception would have been OK if you'd had the aerial horizontal.... :)

[@mspenrice]

unhban ... Great, now i need to check my local signal type as I've only ever tried the stick aerials vertically... iirc anyway. Given that I've had some limited success it'll likely turn out to be vertical anyway... :p

[@stormchaser300]

DID YOU TRY PUTTING THE AERIAL ON THE CENTER OF THE ROOF OF THE CAR AS THE MAGNETIC BASE WOULD ACT AS AN EARTH, PARKING ON TOP OF A HILL OR A CARPARK BUILDING WOULD HELP AS WELL AS USING A HORIZONTAL T ANTENNA LIKE THE ONE IN JAPANESE CARS THAT HAD RABBIT EARS, OR YOU COULD TRY A MOBILE CAR 4G MAGNETIC BASE ANTENNA WHIP AS THE TV USES THE 700MHZ BAND.

[@scratchdog2216]

I had a 1st generation Sony Watchman. Screen on top. '85 maybe? Worked well but ate batteries.

[@scratchdog2216]

@Free in Jesus I had the Radio Shack version of that. I remember a clip-on light that was extra for it.