Smart phones could easily be made to play over the air tv and radio stations.
As a basic throwaway function like how all cars come with a free radio.
We have all this amazing technology yet still don't have a portable tv that fits in your pocket.
The future is weird and destroyed by greed.
In Japan phones have TV tuners
"TV tuners" don't practically exist anymore in my country since the frequencies have been remapped for other stuff and TV has to be broadcasted either by cable or internet connections
>digicuck has no idea what kind of over the air content he’s missing out on
>”the frequencies have been remapped, there’s nothing there”
mondo cringe
That's pretty cool.
Is there even anything good on TV and radio anymore?
This.
Also, there are websites that stream radio through the Internet, you don't even need to plug in headphones to act as an antenna or whatever people did back in the day. I would imagine it's the same for TV, but everything is uploaded elsewhere anyway (usually on YouTube unless it's a series or movie). Why get the same thing with ads and a live stream when you can have it on demand just a click away and watch it at your own pace?
It feels to me like radio and TV are just propped up through shady political and governmental. Sure there are boomers who don't know how to use the Internet listening to the radio in their cars or falling asleep in front of the TV, but they will die out eventually. Even discovering new stuff can be better done through a catalog or Spotify playlist or something. Thanks for reading my TED blogpost.
>through shady political and governmental
*funds
I forgot a word at the end.
Live tv has its niche uses such as breaking news, live sports, and new live shows that won't show up on streaming until the next day.
>breaking news
People can get breaking news notifications through their digital devices.
The issue is greed. TV broadcast used to be free with ads, you just had to buy the tv and antenna.
>it was free
>you just had to buy it
Hahaha, I bet You Don’t Even Realize How Dumb You sound When You Write this.
OTA broadcast is free (with ads). It doesn't require a monthly subscription service or bill. Once you have the equipment, you're paid up until it breaks.
You have to have the digitized bunny ears or antenna since they killed analog about a decade ago, but there can be in some places. It's still mostly local news channels, a channel exclusively for Dr.Phill/Jerry Springer/Judge Judy/ect, and then there's like 1 or 2 channels that play decent shows like The Simpsons or Bob's Burgers after 8pm. But none of them will play the half good shows like South Park or Futurama or Family Guy anymore probably because of "woke insensitivity". I only watch it as a backup if the power goes out or something.
It's the tuner not the antenna bunny ears that needs to be digital, the antennas are just metal anything can work, hell i can pick of OTA signals with a clothes hanger pluged into a coax cable.
Well, if it's so shit, why not make it free then? You can get Candy Crush for free.
traditional TV signals are designed to be picked up by large, stationary antennas. if you want video content on the go like the zoomer that you are, they created something for that called 5G
>like the zoomer that you are
nice try, I recognize second-hand nostalgia when I see it. we didn't even have over-the-air TV as kids, we had cable, so if you're not a Zoomer you must be 60 years old
Wrong again, lil' zoom-zoom. Over-the-air digital antennas are available today. Personally, I had satellite most of the time growing up.
nta, but i'm an older anon who grew up in the woods without cable. with the largest available antenna on the roof, we got 6 channels and they were all dogshit.
you couldn't pay me to watch tv ota.
Phones didn't use 5G. There are small antenna. Dummy
OTA TV and radio are full of ads you can't skip and there's nothing you can do to remove them.
That's the price we pay for it being free.
My android phone has a fm radio app, need to plug in headphones to act as an antenna for better signal though.
neat-o
Apple got some criticism because iPhones already have a ready-to-use radio like that in them, but it is not available to the customer. There was a hurricane and Apple wouldn't make the technology available to people who were on the roofs of their flooded houses with no emergency info available.
Yeah it's just a simple Moto G Fast nothing that special
>soap opera slop
>"reality" TV slop
>game show slop
Yeah, we're really missing out aren't we?
Traditional Radio and TV need antennas to receive their signals, which pretty much mean that you are plugging in something to enable that functionality anyways.
Also you assume that both of those aren't the same garbage interspersed with advertisements ad nauseam.
>radio can send infinite data over waves
>5G can only send 64gb per person in 2024
Fricking bullshit