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Originally Posted by scrivener
... if cellphone makers wanted to, they easily could equip units with the ATSC m/h mobile chip. But they won't, because they want Americans to PAY for broadcast TV, and they've convinced a segment of the broadcast industry (which increasingly has become the wanna-be PAY TV industry), to go along with their plan to require that Americans SIGN UP to receive mobile TV signals, even those that simulcast existing TV stations.
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Correction: the cell phone makers are eager to do this. But cellphones are marketed through cellphone service providers who subsidize the cost of the phones and determine what features go into the phones.