SEG Clip USB TV tuner: Watch digital TV on your iPhone, if you live in Japan

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I think it will be quite a while before we can get this in the US. Japan
digital TV is a 13 segment signal. The 13th is just for mobile devices.
The full HD (if recorded or broadcast in HD) are on the other 12
segments (you need all of the segments). The latest models of
automobile TVs are "full segment" which means that they use the
other 12 segments for HDTV. Unless US broadcasters add in one more
"segment" for mobile devices, it won't be possible for peripheral
makers to make it work via mobile devices.

I used to live in Japan and while the 1 seg does work, and you can
watch OTA broadcasts, the picture quality is not that great and it eats
batteries like crazy. I had one of those phones and I know others who
do own them, and almost no one is willing to use TV function,
including myself. You have to weigh that you can have moderate
phone usage and some Internet (or iMode, EZWeb and the like) for
nearly a day. But if you watch 1 hour of TV, your battery will most
likely have your battery completely drained. Unless this IO Data device
has its own power source, like its own battery, it will be largely
useless unless you need to watch TV for 1 hour and don't care about
using it as a phone, or AppStore player, or iPod function, then the
device is for you. But then you can get 1 Seg TVs for roughly $130 (in
Japan), and it will last quite a bit longer and when it dies, you don't
care because it is only a TV and not a phone, OK it has radio built into
most of them, but still no phone.

I still have a 1 seg digital tuner for my PC, but it came with it and
eliminating it would have done nothing to the price. Of course in the
US it is useless, but I did try it in Japan, but on a 15" laptop the
picture quality was really bad. Sound was OK. Unless you shrink the
picture down quite a bit where the imperfections are less likely to be
noticed, it was largely quite annoying after about 5 minutes. I also had
a digital tuner that got all the segments and would fall back to the
13th segment if the signal was poor. But this tuner required an AC or
car batter source, so it wasn't portable.

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