The great thing about digital broadcast television is that the picture looks perfect. The bad thing about digital broadcast television is that when the signal is too weak, you get absolutely nothing.
Which is why receiving digital broadcast TV in a moving vehicle has been so challenging. The picture may look great, only to disappear once a truck passes in front of you.
But now Samsung says it has the solution to making sure that you will never have to be without “Desperate Housewives.” The company has created a new standard, called A-VSB (for Advanced Vestigial Side Band–don’t ask) that will make the digital broadcast TV signal rock solid, even in a car tooling down the freeway.
Samsung submitted the standard to the Advanced Television Systems Committee last year and expects it to be approved in the next few months. If it is, we will soon see new products like TV-capable car LCD screens and portable digital TVs–followed by a new rash of laws prohibiting their use in the front seat.
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