20Mar/102
Where can I locally buy a digital tv band radio?
Okay here is my problem. Everyday at work I listened to my favorite tv shows on my radio which had a tv tuner on it. Well now since tvs went digital the tv went out. Where on earth can you buy the digital tv radios?
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March 20th, 2010 - 09:48
>Where on earth can you buy the digital tv radios?
You can’t.
It was cheap to add analog TV sound to an FM radio; it’s expensive to add digital TV sound to a radio.
There is no technical reason such a radio can’t be built, but with the price premium and limited market, I don’t expect any soon.
Workarounds:
1. Buy a portable TV with a digital tuner ($100 – $150). Battery life is a lot shorter than most radios.
2. Buy connect a converter box & antenna to a radio with an audio input
(A pain but could be done)
3. Record the previous days programs and play them back the next day (Again, a pain but could be done)
March 20th, 2010 - 09:49
Unfortunately, over-the-air TV works best after optimizing an antenna system in a fixed location. If you move the antenna (like the antenna on any portable TV or by extension, any future digital TV-band radio), it will probably need to be rescanned in order to capture the channels receivable in the new location–if any.
When manufacturers get around the re-scan requirement for digital TV detectors, digital TV-band radios *might* become feasible, but you’d still have to find a manufacturer willing to take a big marketing risk.