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In 2012 while in high school (I was 17 at the time), I skipped school a lot. I had a trailblazer with a double DIN in-dash aftermarket radio that I had installed along with a sound system. One day while skipping, I got really bored and decided I would install TV in my trailblazer. I hunted down a telescopic mag mount antenna with 75 Ω coax and pulled apart a DTV box and removed the AC to DC power supply and crossed my fingers that the 13.6v of my alternator wouldn't pop something on the board. IT WORKED!! I converted the AV out to HDMI and hooked it to my in-dash and had TV when I would skip school!! I went on to fail out of high school, got my GED, got my ham license the next year (KF5WDG), and taught myself Electronics engineering where I am now a production engineer for a company that manufactures Lasers, THAT WAS STARTED IN '69 BY A HAM OPERATOR!! Life is full circle. I figured I would share this here because your story reminds me of mine kinda. Edit: Grammer.
@@garretthaynes8814 I talk on my 2 meter HAM radio without a license. I refuse to pay money for my "Freedom of Speech" guaranteed by the 1st Amendment in the United States Bill of Rights. I also have been talking on my CB radio with a 300 watt amplifier on it. I just don't think 4 watt CB radios are powerful enough for talking 4 thousand mile distances.
@@unitedstatesirie7431 it has nothing to do with freedom of speech buddy. It has to do with being smart enough to understand the physics of radio waves, which you clearly don’t if you think 4 watts won’t bounce around the world on 11 meter. An OO will use RDF to find you if you transmit without a license. I promise, you will be found by somebody if you operate illegally on ham radio. CB is different but the FCC is starting to bust people for ERP limits. Now back to the free speech thing, I’m willing to bet money that you are a “sovereign citizen” too. When the FCC shows up at your door, try to give them the freedom of speech argument. You do have freedom of speech, but not freedom of RF emission.
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Tech for the general consumer is all about nickel and dimeing everyone. You would have to dig deeper into current tech to find actual tech for tech purposes!
Tyler, thanks to you, I moved my OTA antenna from inside the house to outside. Went from 29 to 49 channels. You might also want to do a howto run and terminate RG6. A 250 foot roll and the tools to terminate it aren't too expensive and it ends up being WAY heaper than premade cables from Amazon or anywhere else.
I remember when some portable transister radios were able to pick up local TV channels. You might not be able to watch your shows but you could at least listen to them. 🥰
portable transister radios with TV SOUND, you can pick up Russian OIRT FM and Japanese FM frequencies on US or Chinese TV SOUND RADIOS. But for Japanese transistor TV sound radios, you can pick up mostly Full FM frequencies.
I remember when T Mobile and Verizon had cell phones that had OTA in 2006, but I never bought the phone because it was just too expensive. I wish Samsung and Motorola made digital ATSC tuners, they would’ve been popular if they adapted the DTV transition!
I believe there will be an avalanche of portable TVs back on the market as ATSC 3.0 rolls out. The error correction in the new format will make in motion reception much more robust making it more practical. I still have a Sony Watchman that had slide rule tuning that covered the amateur radio analog bands located between broadcast TV channels 6 and 7.
Back then I had an oddball Chinese phone with TV. I ordered it online and a guy in Hong Kong sent it to me by Chinese registered mail. Android 2.2.2 and a 3" screen. The best feature was a slide out keyboard that was fantastic. Large keys and a solid feel. It was called a DaPeng T3000. I had t stop using it when the proprietary USB cable shorted out. The USB port was kind of like a micro USB but about 2.5 times wider. I loved that keyboard!
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Probably not. Unfortunately my videos that feature specific TVs of the past appear to flop. Most of my viewers are mainly concerned with videos related to modern equipment. I took a risk making this video as it's a bit technical (they tend to flop too) but we'll see how it works out.
@@AntennaMan Honestly I think it would be on theme with your other videos, but I'm coming from a different mindset that might not be what your usual subscribers expect. That said, I've had a lot of fun boosting the RF signal from my VCR to the point it's picked up on my game gear. Using it as a passthrough with my PS3 has lead to some hilarious results. You can dispay essentially anything on a low res screen that way.
Awesome video. For a second, I was hoping this would be about the debug modes on AMPS phones that would let you listen to arbitrary channels, even those that overlapped UHF channels 69-83.. this is nice too!
I love using my silicon dust 3 tuner box with my cable card. I can watch tv on my iPhone. It also works on my TVs and ipad. Lon sideman got me interested in it years ago with his review of it. Silicon Dust also makes over the air tuners. They have a new ATSC 3 tuner too.
I remember about those phones, never had one of that type, but I was pretty happy when phones still had built in FM Radios. I even had one that could record radio broadcasts.
Some phones still have hidden FM tuners in their hardware that can be accessed through an app and the use of a pair of wired headphones or earbuds, for use as the antenna.
In 2007-2008, I had a Samsung flip phone (a sporty, heavy duty one outrigged with an extended battery) and was on Sprint. I did get a multi "streaming" kinda thing, live football was delayed maybe by one second. Could get news and all sorts of stuff. It was part of the data package.
Very cool! I thought this would be about phone like the LG Vu that picked up only AT&T TV channels. I’m 26 and have never used any sort of TV antenna and this was my first time hearing the term “TV tuner.” I’m actually shocked to learn that any sort of TV channels are still broadcast over the air! I was under the impression that the only options were cable, satellite, and internet……
That looks so cool! I can't believe I'm only hearing about them now. I used to wonder if a cell phone and TV could ever be combined together but those days were over quick when streaming on smartphones became a thing.
Things have sure changed since then, but very cool ! What a great novelty to have. I remember my crazy flip phones back then none of them here in Canada I can remember had a tv tuner built in. What a way to kill time in school when bored.
Those were some great times. And I also remember when phones could Mirror thier Screens to your TV without needing to be connected to Wifi or a Dongle/Stick.
I'm from the Philippines and I have 2 of these phones with analog TV. It's named MyPhone and I purchased it way back 2012. It was so important when we got hit by a Cat 5 typhoon last year and we lost power for a month as information like news (from TV and radio) was so vital for us in the disaster zone. We winged the 1 month blackout cause we have our own solar genset (that I installed).
In Japan, South Korea and Brazil there are still modern phones with TV tuners built into them. And here in Europe, DVB-T/T2 USB tuners are readily available and can be connected via an OTG adapter to an Android phone, but ideally to a bigger tablet because of it being easier to fasten one of those to the device. Something like a modern Galaxy Tab could make for a pretty good portable TV.
You and I are of a similar mind, a real gadget ever. However, I am much older than you, going back to 1960 with TV, MW, FM, and Shortwave radio 📻, leading me to amateur radio in 1962, now licensed for 60 years. I had those small analog LED TV's in the 1980's too, and the B&W Sinclair Micro TV, which worked Europe too, over 40 years ago. I now have the TV adapter you showed for my phone and an RCA branded 4.3 inch battery 🔋 portable TV too. Ray W2CH.
Love this video! I have an old Mini RCA TV with antenna that supports Analog & Digital stations too. Excited about that TV Cell Phone! Hope you can do a review. Ganna check the dongle too. Thank you!!!📺📱
Many budget Samsung phones to this day have FM tuners. They're not half bad, with me receiving Algerian radio via E Skip using headphones. My HTC can easily receive Italian radio 250 km away with the headphones. In some locations even in high quality stereo!
I agree. Hell, in my opinion, analog TV should've been kept active, so that way it could have been kept active as some sort of emergency broadcast network.
I mentioned many times and I found out that cellphones with TV tuners was common in Philippines. Example is Cherry Mobile, Torque, Myphone, Starmobile and Cloudfone. Previously, I had a phone with TV tuner which is Cherry Mobile. Anyway, thanks for the detail, Tyler! I'm from Philippines.
Also from Philippines here. You could go to a Japan surplus store, get an old phone (if/when they have them), look for 1seg, and still get TV here (because 1seg is also used in Philippines for digital TV)
@@syed_mamoon99 Well, our NTC (something like the US FCC) decided it works best for our setting. Something to do with better emergency warnings in broadcasts. Aaaand some engineers say receivers are cheaper because we could get them cheap from Japan. Stuff like that.
Myphone also sold a simple feature phone with a TV tuner. I had a blast playing with it. Well, I guess I have three months left to use it before all analog signals will be shut down.
Love the idea of TV on a phone. This reminds me of trying to get FM radio on my cell phone. It is strange that I can't do that with two of my smartphones (Samsung Galaxy J7 and Google Pixel 4a) but can do FM radio with my Alcatel 960C and Alcatel Smartflip 2. At one time the radio broadcast industry was trying to get FM to be included with all cell phones sold in the US. I guess the cell phone lobby went against this, since having another source of FREE music and information would cut revenues from subscriptions and data streaming. Ugh.
I have a S10e with a radio tuner. Radio tuner works with Android 10. I 'upgraded' to Android 11 and the radio tuner was disabled! I rolled it back to Android 10.
We still got DMB for various devices in Korea. My Galaxy Note 3 had an antenna for this. More recent phones don't seem to have the ability to use DMB service tho.
I had a black berry looking phone that had a tuner built in. when I worked at a camp during down time out in the woods I'd sit off in the staff area watching MTV2 and CMT cause for some reason those were able to be picked up OTA around Nashville. It was so cool.
There were plans to implement ATSC-M/H chips in cell phones in the early 2010s but the TV standard flopped. Hopefully ATSC 3.0 doesn't suffer the same fate.
I used to have one of these chinese TV phones, was a Nokia knock off, touch screen, physical keyboard. it charged with a mini usb port and the regular nokia charger. Had it for almost 3 years. The TV and radio features were a life saver as I lived alone with no job, internet access and a data plan. It survived water, dust, falls from my bike. It surprised me that it had better construction than some of the newer flagships. Those were the days.
Simmilar phone to Blu Jenny TV 2.8. County select: Japan (JP NTSC-M) Philippines (US NTSC-M) Brazil (BR PAL-M) Argeintina (AR PAL-N) Indonesia (EU PAL-B/G) Australia (AU PAL-B) New Zealand (NZ PAL-B/G) Hong Kong (UK PAL-I) Chinese Shenzhen (CN PAL-I) China (CN PAL-D) Romania (RU PAL-D/K) Iran (EU SECAM-B/G) Russia (RU SECAM-D/K) France (FR SECAM-L) French Guiana (OFR SECAM-K/K1)
Thanks Tyler. Entertaining and Informative Video. Brought several smiles to my face and a few chuckles. Took me back to my younger, experimenting days. P.S. I used your OTA recommendation service in the past and found it to be a great value. ...Bob
In the Philippines, phones with TV tuners are rampant in the past. But only for basic phones. But now, Smartphones will need to use a DTV dongle to watch DTV broadcast.
All right about Amazon recast box in conjunction with my fire stick. It allows me to watch recorded shows as well as live shows from my phone. But it's very glitchy feature. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Your comedy is dry, but......still works, keep it up, my friend. Your channel is a great asset to OATV AND US CABLE CUTTERS Please keep them vids coming. Oh and a Shout out to Mr. Sabrinsky for enabling this RUclips Star to learn his Tricks of the trade!❤❤ You are NOW LEGENDARY!
Goes to show some types of technology was better in years past. Yep Tyler you turned out ok, look at how much you are helping out others with receiving off the air TV, through this RUclips channel. You help me decide which outdoor TV antenna to buy and that is the Range Xperts XPS-1500 VHF & UHF antenna. Thank you for your expertise.
Back in 2004 I got a TV Tuner that worked on a Gameboy Advance, impressed many kids, and it had AV inputs which I once used to play my GameCube when brought it on vacation to a place that had no TVs, it also had an antenna cable input, so even after analog TV was turned off in the US, I still was able to use it on analog cable for a few years. Recently I bought a portable DVD player that includes an ATSC 1.0 tuner, but it has no built in antenna, just coax input, and separate AV inputs and outputs, so bought a good little RCA antenna, and a amplifier that is powered by USB which works from the players USB connection, so even with no power I can still use the antenna amplified, and use the car adapter to charge it there if needed, but I mostly use it on weekends to have an additional TV for broadcast TV sports watching, as all my TVs have antennas on them plus streaming boxes as I pay for the DirecTV Stream service, and use my parents cable login for the NFL Network, which only major US based channel I was missing that care about, as rarely mind I don’t get the Pac 12 network either, but get all other us based news and sports channels, plus some international one, and best part about paying for this streaming service is that when travel I get to stream the local channels in area I traveled to on my phone, while still being able to watch cloud DVR recordings from my home area’s local channels
One more thing that's shutting down is Slingbox. I used to love streaming my cable box to my phone. It didn't matter where I was as long as I had a connection to the Internet.
I can still watch TV on my cell phone through an app called free TV. However you can't record any shows. You click on Google play store or Apple store and type in Free TV and you can watch live TV. Ericson phones still had TV tuner built in in 2015 but they discontinued the TV tuner in 2016. I had a Nokia phone in 2014 that had a TV tuner in it but it received the signal by satellite and didn't have a telescopic antenna. However they had an antenna adapter that plugged into the headphones jack for an aerial to pick up TV stations.
Funny you mention it, I just bought one of those tuner dongles on Amazon and it'll be on it's way this week. Somehow, the walls in the living room make it hard to get any signals from an antenna. Hopefully, watching your vids will get me closer to finding a good indoor antenna. I can't use an outdoor one for reasons I won't get into
What's funny is before 5G, many TV news stations were using a fairly large backpack unit to do multiple LTE connections so they could do live broadcasts. Now that there's 5G, I imagine the device they connect the camera to is smaller.
I remember I did owned a phone with TV tuner built-in in 2012-2013 if didn't mistaken. I use it until 2016 once that phone is broken. At that time, analog TV in Malaysia and Thailand still on air until at least mid 2017 where the analog TV starting closing analog TV and replace to digital TV since early 2016. Since I live not too far from Thailand at that time, I received 6 Malaysian channels and 6 Thai channels. But if I live on another side on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia, I can get total of 13 channels (7 Malaysian channels and 6 Thai channels) on analog TV. But since nowadays TV goes to digital, I can get 15 Malaysian TV channels, 22 Thai TV channels and 17 Malaysian digital radio channels. Those who living near to the border can get up to 37 TV channels and 17 radio channels.
At least some cell phones and tablets still have an FM radio receiver in them today, mine does thankfully. It kinda sucks they made it where you gotta use headphones as an antenna, but hey that makes sense I guess. At least it still has an option to play through the loudspeaker regardless.
I was waiting tables during the mid 2000’s and lots of Japanese businessmen would come in for dinner that had the sickest cell phones at the time. One had t.v. much like the ones on this video and others had ability to translate English to Japanese using the camera, way before apps were a thing. I was dumbfounded at the tech.
7Seg tech used in Japan to transmit digital TV was designed to allow to digital TV reception on portable devices, unlike ATSC. I toyed around with one back in 2008 when I was in Japan. Pretty neat tech that worked well, and got good reception, even inside a shopping mall!
I follow several YT channels that comment on medial and popular culture. Every so often the topic of broadcast TV comes up and most of the hosts and panelists seem woefully ill informed about the fact there are a significant number of people out there that still choose to receive broadcast TV. Most of these RUclipsrs are exclusively streamers and have left broadcast and cable in the rear view mirror long ago. What I have noticed around my neighborhood is that there slowly more and more antennas popping up where people used to have satellite dishes. I myself watch both broadcast and streaming. I just don’t see it going away anytime soon.
Mr. Antenna Man, can you recommend a tripod, about 6ft high, I can use for an indoor tv antenna. There are tripods for speakers, photography screens and lights. Will one of those work for a tv antenna?
@@fishtoledo Thanks for the suggestion. I've been looking at tripods on Amazon. There are tripods for satellite but they're for outdoor and 3ft at most.
heh, Good timing with the interview though, it being October, Halloween and all that ;), timing is everything lol Nice trip down memory lane with the phone tv's. Thank you! Need to see that ATSC phone, jus sayin' lol It looks nice.
Superb work - keep it up - best technical file on RUclips for VHF & UHF antenna - with very accessible clear impartial objective and useful information. It is fantastic to see a niche specialised topic receive such a considerable loyal following.🙂 It would be really interesting to see the Chanel dip into and explore some theoretical aspects of RF circuits also, reflectance, inductive & capacitive impedance (RF Match) resonant length of cables, vertical and horizontal polarisation and so on. It’s a very rewarding area of study & practical application. I worked on RF technology over 20 years ago within the semiconductor industry, some of my knowledge has lapsed, it would be interesting to explore RF principles & the technology again, and it’s broader applications. Continued success with the channel!
here where i live there are still analog broadcasts of almost all the local channels mostly due to reception difficulties in rural areas government still doesnt want to turn the a transmiters off back in 2010 i had one of these little analog tv phones and i used to watch the world cup's matches while in school, i was the coolest kid in the classroom
When I lived in Korea for 3 years back in 2013-2016 most Samsung, lg and other smartphones had this as standard. Even flip phone/feature phones had these too. Was really common to see people on public transport like their subway system watching aired tv on their phone.
In high school around 2003/04 i used to use a hauppauge pvr 250 to record sports in my living room to my pc which is then streamed via opening the mpeg file to my bedroom! Reminds me in your setup but in the digital domain
So far it's performing well! I took a risk with this subject as technical videos like this sometimes perform poorly. I'm thankful my audience is interested in it.
It's amazing how many seemingly different types of RUclips channels are now ripping on all the BS that is happening in the world with the incestuoul relationship between large corporate interests and governement. Antenna man, gaming channels, politics channels, nutrition channels, medicine channels, comedy channels, dating channels and so on and so on. Thank you for what you do.
Antenna man. Quick question would it be possible to do a video about taking two antennas and combining them then sending that signal to two different rooms. Thanks love the channel
My first smartphone had TV Integrated, it was 2014, I was 14 years old and lived in Mexico, I used to watch cartoons and soap operas on my phone on the bus. The phone was a ZTE and had analog tuner, but it stopped working in 2015 when our analog signal shut down. Phones with tv were pretty popular in Mexico, I remember one time we were on a bus stuck in traffic on a Sunday and 4 people had their TV on because they were airing the final episode of a Survival Game Show.
I always wanted to do this with a laptop which is why I went out and bought TV tuner not soon enough. I used it out and about once I was waiting for a train in Chicago. Oh my gosh the number of channels!!!!! I've always grown up in like valleys with like 4-5 channels kind of thing. And this was not even counting the sub channels!
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In 2012 while in high school (I was 17 at the time), I skipped school a lot. I had a trailblazer with a double DIN in-dash aftermarket radio that I had installed along with a sound system. One day while skipping, I got really bored and decided I would install TV in my trailblazer. I hunted down a telescopic mag mount antenna with 75 Ω coax and pulled apart a DTV box and removed the AC to DC power supply and crossed my fingers that the 13.6v of my alternator wouldn't pop something on the board. IT WORKED!! I converted the AV out to HDMI and hooked it to my in-dash and had TV when I would skip school!! I went on to fail out of high school, got my GED, got my ham license the next year (KF5WDG), and taught myself Electronics engineering where I am now a production engineer for a company that manufactures Lasers, THAT WAS STARTED IN '69 BY A HAM OPERATOR!! Life is full circle. I figured I would share this here because your story reminds me of mine kinda.
Edit: Grammer.
How many TV channels do you pick up with that Schnokers (TM) antenna on yer face?
@@garretthaynes8814 I talk on my 2 meter HAM radio without a license. I refuse to pay money for my "Freedom of Speech" guaranteed by the 1st Amendment in the United States Bill of Rights.
I also have been talking on my CB radio with a 300 watt amplifier on it. I just don't think 4 watt CB radios are powerful enough for talking 4 thousand mile distances.
@@unitedstatesirie7431 it has nothing to do with freedom of speech buddy. It has to do with being smart enough to understand the physics of radio waves, which you clearly don’t if you think 4 watts won’t bounce around the world on 11 meter. An OO will use RDF to find you if you transmit without a license. I promise, you will be found by somebody if you operate illegally on ham radio. CB is different but the FCC is starting to bust people for ERP limits. Now back to the free speech thing, I’m willing to bet money that you are a “sovereign citizen” too. When the FCC shows up at your door, try to give them the freedom of speech argument. You do have freedom of speech, but not freedom of RF emission.
Loved the part "I turned out okay" while smashing an antenna.
Comical. 😅😅
Then shows an interview with Jeffery Dahmer.😂😂😂
Antenna Master has been in business since June 1992. Several of our customer praise Tyler. He is right on point. My respect to him.
Television was invented in 1927 in our country, and it was free. I still like to keep it that way!
Antenna Master Corporation
I miss when tech was about TECH and not about how they can nickle and dime consumers....
Commenting on this video cost $0.10 please
@@GunnyZneedsbeer It's coming soon.....
we're going to get "nickel and dimed" to death!
Tech for the general consumer is all about nickel and dimeing everyone. You would have to dig deeper into current tech to find actual tech for tech purposes!
We all do
It’s all the fucking investors and the market... it needs to crash, everything is overinflated
Tyler, thanks to you, I moved my OTA antenna from inside the house to outside. Went from 29 to 49 channels. You might also want to do a howto run and terminate RG6. A 250 foot roll and the tools to terminate it aren't too expensive and it ends up being WAY heaper than premade cables from Amazon or anywhere else.
My dads antenna is still doing great as per your service, referral and recommendation. Great Stuff AM. Off to buy my dongle now.
I love these old TV phones!! I have them for a long time ago, and I remember using them when there's an outage and still being able to watch tv
That's the sign of a good teacher: "you thought outside the box and pulled it off? Keep doing that."
I'm wanting to say up until fairly recently that smartphones have FM receiver chips inside. You would plug in earbuds and use that as the antenna.
Another simply outstanding topic and video. Many thanks again Tyler.
Thanks for the heart Tyler. You are the best...
I remember when some portable transister radios were able to pick up local TV channels. You might not be able to watch your shows but you could at least listen to them. 🥰
portable transister radios with TV SOUND, you can pick up Russian OIRT FM and Japanese FM frequencies on US or Chinese TV SOUND RADIOS. But for Japanese transistor TV sound radios, you can pick up mostly Full FM frequencies.
Also use HANRONGDA HRD-832 FM transmitter and set to 65.7 FM, 71.7 FM, 81.7FM, 72.2 FM, 83.7 FM, etc.. 60 - 108 Mhz
I remember when T Mobile and Verizon had cell phones that had OTA in 2006, but I never bought the phone because it was just too expensive. I wish Samsung and Motorola made digital ATSC tuners, they would’ve been popular if they adapted the DTV transition!
You have many videos that are both educational and entertaining, but this is by far the BEST EVER! Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
I'm glad there's a guy out there who speaks for the antennas.
I believe there will be an avalanche of portable TVs back on the market as ATSC 3.0 rolls out. The error correction in the new format will make in motion reception much more robust making it more practical. I still have a Sony Watchman that had slide rule tuning that covered the amateur radio analog bands located between broadcast TV channels 6 and 7.
And I bet many smartphone manufacturers will add them into their devices
@@LegoWormNoah101 not all of them, but waiting for MyGica ATSC 3.0 tuner (USB-C)
Set top boxes too with HDMI out
There's still portable TVs available for European DVB-T2 TV. They even come with USB stick support, so they double as VCRs!
@@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY In Europe STBs with HDMI for DVB-T/T2 have been available for over 10 years now.
WOW! and I thought I was a TV geek... Your teacher was a great teacher, encouraging you into a good career choice.
Back then I had an oddball Chinese phone with TV. I ordered it online and a guy in Hong Kong sent it to me by Chinese registered mail. Android 2.2.2 and a 3" screen. The best feature was a slide out keyboard that was fantastic. Large keys and a solid feel. It was called a DaPeng T3000. I had t stop using it when the proprietary USB cable shorted out. The USB port was kind of like a micro USB but about 2.5 times wider. I loved that keyboard!
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Thanks! I love OTA
Waiting for a video about the SEGA Game Gear TV tuner. You will do that right?
Probably not. Unfortunately my videos that feature specific TVs of the past appear to flop. Most of my viewers are mainly concerned with videos related to modern equipment. I took a risk making this video as it's a bit technical (they tend to flop too) but we'll see how it works out.
@@AntennaMan Honestly I think it would be on theme with your other videos, but I'm coming from a different mindset that might not be what your usual subscribers expect. That said, I've had a lot of fun boosting the RF signal from my VCR to the point it's picked up on my game gear. Using it as a passthrough with my PS3 has lead to some hilarious results. You can dispay essentially anything on a low res screen that way.
Awesome video. For a second, I was hoping this would be about the debug modes on AMPS phones that would let you listen to arbitrary channels, even those that overlapped UHF channels 69-83.. this is nice too!
That Android Tv tuner you told us about works Great 👍 👌
I get 83 channels crystal clear. Even the local weather station!!!!
Great to hear!
At one time our phones had an FM tuner in them as well. They only worked if you used headphones or earbuds because it used the wire as an antenna.
That's cause google wants all your data (I think all after android 11 don't support it. Even if the hardware is there). Get the "SDR" radio dongle ;)
One of my old flip phones had a great FM radio!
my current phone is android 11 128gb internal memory 6gbs of a ram and it has a fm tuner and a headphone jack and is usb C
90% of new phones still have FM tuners. (90% of the ones that have a audio jack to be precise)
@@vasopel Sadly none of my Samsung phones that I've owned didn't have it. They all had audio jacks.
I love using my silicon dust 3 tuner box with my cable card. I can watch tv on my iPhone. It also works on my TVs and ipad. Lon sideman got me interested in it years ago with his review of it. Silicon Dust also makes over the air tuners. They have a new ATSC 3 tuner too.
I remember about those phones, never had one of that type, but I was pretty happy when phones still had built in FM Radios. I even had one that could record radio broadcasts.
Some phones still have hidden FM tuners in their hardware that can be accessed through an app and the use of a pair of wired headphones or earbuds, for use as the antenna.
Great video as usual. I had an old cellphone I found with antenna, but the antenna broke off when I was testing it long ago.
In 2007-2008, I had a Samsung flip phone (a sporty, heavy duty one outrigged with an extended battery) and was on Sprint.
I did get a multi "streaming" kinda thing, live football was delayed maybe by one second. Could get news and all sorts of stuff. It was part of the data package.
The internet delay is normal. You don’t get live video it’s more like as it happened video. That’s one thing I don’t like about streaming local tv
Samsung still have flip phones too. LoL
Very cool! I thought this would be about phone like the LG Vu that picked up only AT&T TV channels. I’m 26 and have never used any sort of TV antenna and this was my first time hearing the term “TV tuner.” I’m actually shocked to learn that any sort of TV channels are still broadcast over the air! I was under the impression that the only options were cable, satellite, and internet……
That looks so cool! I can't believe I'm only hearing about them now. I used to wonder if a cell phone and TV could ever be combined together but those days were over quick when streaming on smartphones became a thing.
In the 90’s I so wanted a portable tv. It be nice to have today in a phone too.
Things have sure changed since then, but very cool ! What a great novelty to have. I remember my crazy flip phones back then none of them here in Canada I can remember had a tv tuner built in. What a way to kill time in school when bored.
2:30 you LIVED my life I remember watching TV on my phone... Wow I felt alone then Haaa who knew some one was doing the same thing
Those were some great times. And I also remember when phones could Mirror thier Screens to your TV without needing to be connected to Wifi or a Dongle/Stick.
This video is really cool. It's awesome how passionate you are about OTA TV.
I'm from the Philippines and I have 2 of these phones with analog TV. It's named MyPhone and I purchased it way back 2012. It was so important when we got hit by a Cat 5 typhoon last year and we lost power for a month as information like news (from TV and radio) was so vital for us in the disaster zone. We winged the 1 month blackout cause we have our own solar genset (that I installed).
It reminds from Super Typhoon Yolanda and Typhoon Ruby
In Japan, South Korea and Brazil there are still modern phones with TV tuners built into them.
And here in Europe, DVB-T/T2 USB tuners are readily available and can be connected via an OTG adapter to an Android phone, but ideally to a bigger tablet because of it being easier to fasten one of those to the device. Something like a modern Galaxy Tab could make for a pretty good portable TV.
Same here in Chile, through the 1seg signals used in the digital ISDB-T standsrd (also used in the aforementioned Japan and Brazil).
You and I are of a similar mind, a real gadget ever. However, I am much older than you, going back to 1960 with TV, MW, FM, and Shortwave radio 📻, leading me to amateur
radio in 1962, now licensed for 60 years.
I had those small analog LED TV's in the
1980's too, and the B&W Sinclair Micro TV, which worked Europe too, over 40 years ago.
I now have the TV adapter you showed for
my phone and an RCA branded 4.3 inch battery 🔋 portable TV too. Ray W2CH.
Love this video! I have an old Mini RCA TV with antenna that supports Analog & Digital stations too. Excited about that TV Cell Phone! Hope you can do a review. Ganna check the dongle too. Thank you!!!📺📱
My LG V 30 and 40 had an FM tuner, but you needed to plug the earphones to use as an antenna.
I had one too. Used it to pick up 101.9 WFAN FM and can listen to Yankees Radio Broadcast while at the Yankees game.
Many budget Samsung phones to this day have FM tuners. They're not half bad, with me receiving Algerian radio via E Skip using headphones.
My HTC can easily receive Italian radio 250 km away with the headphones. In some locations even in high quality stereo!
Wow! Who knew? You are truly the King of Antenna nerds!
A built in TV receiver in smartphone could be really useful for EMERGENCY alerts W/O using data.
I agree. Hell, in my opinion, analog TV should've been kept active, so that way it could have been kept active as some sort of emergency broadcast network.
I mentioned many times and I found out that cellphones with TV tuners was common in Philippines. Example is Cherry Mobile, Torque, Myphone, Starmobile and Cloudfone.
Previously, I had a phone with TV tuner which is Cherry Mobile.
Anyway, thanks for the detail, Tyler!
I'm from Philippines.
Also from Philippines here. You could go to a Japan surplus store, get an old phone (if/when they have them), look for 1seg, and still get TV here (because 1seg is also used in Philippines for digital TV)
I'm curious as to why the Philippines adopted 1seg instead of DVB?
@@syed_mamoon99 Well, our NTC (something like the US FCC) decided it works best for our setting. Something to do with better emergency warnings in broadcasts. Aaaand some engineers say receivers are cheaper because we could get them cheap from Japan. Stuff like that.
anyway, cherry mobile launch it's tv phone called candy TV back in 2012
Myphone also sold a simple feature phone with a TV tuner. I had a blast playing with it. Well, I guess I have three months left to use it before all analog signals will be shut down.
Love the idea of TV on a phone. This reminds me of trying to get FM radio on my cell phone. It is strange that I can't do that with two of my smartphones (Samsung Galaxy J7 and Google Pixel 4a) but can do FM radio with my Alcatel 960C and Alcatel Smartflip 2. At one time the radio broadcast industry was trying to get FM to be included with all cell phones sold in the US. I guess the cell phone lobby went against this, since having another source of FREE music and information would cut revenues from subscriptions and data streaming. Ugh.
My Nord N200 was advertised as having FM but there doesn't seem to be any easy way to access it.
The Motorola E5 Play however had it.
@Melanie , my Xiaomi Redmi has an great FM radio too👍
I have a S10e with a radio tuner. Radio tuner works with Android 10. I 'upgraded' to Android 11 and the radio tuner was disabled! I rolled it back to Android 10.
My old Samsung S9 gets FM.
I have a Nokia X100 cell phone and it has an fm radio tuner built in.
We still got DMB for various devices in Korea.
My Galaxy Note 3 had an antenna for this. More recent phones don't seem to have the ability to use DMB service tho.
I had a black berry looking phone that had a tuner built in. when I worked at a camp during down time out in the woods I'd sit off in the staff area watching MTV2 and CMT cause for some reason those were able to be picked up OTA around Nashville. It was so cool.
When I moved to Tokyo in the early 2000’s my clamshell DoCoMo phone would let me watch local tv, even when in tunnels or underground on the JR.
That's pretty cool technology, it's a shame it really didn't take off in the American market
There were plans to implement ATSC-M/H chips in cell phones in the early 2010s but the TV standard flopped. Hopefully ATSC 3.0 doesn't suffer the same fate.
I have learned so much from you. I hooked a Roku stick into 4 televisions. My nephew said uncle Chris that’s impossible. I love doing the impossible.
My father had one in 2008, when I was little. I have no idea where it went or why we abandoned it...
I used to have one of these chinese TV phones, was a Nokia knock off, touch screen, physical keyboard. it charged with a mini usb port and the regular nokia charger. Had it for almost 3 years. The TV and radio features were a life saver as I lived alone with no job, internet access and a data plan. It survived water, dust, falls from my bike. It surprised me that it had better construction than some of the newer flagships. Those were the days.
Simmilar phone to Blu Jenny TV 2.8.
County select:
Japan (JP NTSC-M)
Philippines (US NTSC-M)
Brazil (BR PAL-M)
Argeintina (AR PAL-N)
Indonesia (EU PAL-B/G)
Australia (AU PAL-B)
New Zealand (NZ PAL-B/G)
Hong Kong (UK PAL-I)
Chinese Shenzhen (CN PAL-I)
China (CN PAL-D)
Romania (RU PAL-D/K)
Iran (EU SECAM-B/G)
Russia (RU SECAM-D/K)
France (FR SECAM-L)
French Guiana (OFR SECAM-K/K1)
you know..I just wanna watch tv with an antenna on a real tv like I did most of my life..and for tv to be somewhat worth watching like it was too
I almost forgot that such things existed. It was really short period of time.
Thanks Tyler. Entertaining and Informative Video. Brought several smiles to my face and a few chuckles. Took me back to my younger, experimenting days. P.S. I used your OTA recommendation service in the past and found it to be a great value. ...Bob
In the Philippines, phones with TV tuners are rampant in the past. But only for basic phones. But now, Smartphones will need to use a DTV dongle to watch DTV broadcast.
Yes, Jolo. I appreciated your facts.
I absolutely love your channel and thank you for all your tips and info.
All right about Amazon recast box in conjunction with my fire stick. It allows me to watch recorded shows as well as live shows from my phone. But it's very glitchy feature. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Your comedy is dry, but......still works, keep it up, my friend.
Your channel is a great asset to OATV AND US CABLE CUTTERS
Please keep them vids coming.
Oh and a Shout out to Mr. Sabrinsky for enabling this RUclips Star to learn his Tricks of the trade!❤❤
You are NOW LEGENDARY!
Goes to show some types of technology was better in years past. Yep Tyler you turned out ok, look at how much you are helping out others with receiving off the air TV, through this RUclips channel. You help me decide which outdoor TV antenna to buy and that is the Range Xperts XPS-1500 VHF & UHF antenna. Thank you for your expertise.
Tyler, you are amazing! Never knew about TV cell phones.
The story about your homeroom is gold!
Back in 2004 I got a TV Tuner that worked on a Gameboy Advance, impressed many kids, and it had AV inputs which I once used to play my GameCube when brought it on vacation to a place that had no TVs, it also had an antenna cable input, so even after analog TV was turned off in the US, I still was able to use it on analog cable for a few years. Recently I bought a portable DVD player that includes an ATSC 1.0 tuner, but it has no built in antenna, just coax input, and separate AV inputs and outputs, so bought a good little RCA antenna, and a amplifier that is powered by USB which works from the players USB connection, so even with no power I can still use the antenna amplified, and use the car adapter to charge it there if needed, but I mostly use it on weekends to have an additional TV for broadcast TV sports watching, as all my TVs have antennas on them plus streaming boxes as I pay for the DirecTV Stream service, and use my parents cable login for the NFL Network, which only major US based channel I was missing that care about, as rarely mind I don’t get the Pac 12 network either, but get all other us based news and sports channels, plus some international one, and best part about paying for this streaming service is that when travel I get to stream the local channels in area I traveled to on my phone, while still being able to watch cloud DVR recordings from my home area’s local channels
One more thing that's shutting down is Slingbox. I used to love streaming my cable box to my phone. It didn't matter where I was as long as I had a connection to the Internet.
I can still watch TV on my cell phone through an app called free TV. However you can't record any shows. You click on Google play store or Apple store and type in Free TV and you can watch live TV. Ericson phones still had TV tuner built in in 2015 but they discontinued the TV tuner in 2016. I had a Nokia phone in 2014 that had a TV tuner in it but it received the signal by satellite and didn't have a telescopic antenna. However they had an antenna adapter that plugged into the headphones jack for an aerial to pick up TV stations.
Hi,
Would you please let me know that specifications and model of your NOKIA Phone in 2014 that received satellite signals and built in tv tuner ?
Funny you mention it, I just bought one of those tuner dongles on Amazon and it'll be on it's way this week. Somehow, the walls in the living room make it hard to get any signals from an antenna. Hopefully, watching your vids will get me closer to finding a good indoor antenna. I can't use an outdoor one for reasons I won't get into
I personally had a backpack with an HDHR, WiFi router, and battery w/inverter. That way I could use my iPhone 🤫
That's hilarious! Glad I wasn't the only one who did something like that.
What's funny is before 5G, many TV news stations were using a fairly large backpack unit to do multiple LTE connections so they could do live broadcasts.
Now that there's 5G, I imagine the device they connect the camera to is smaller.
Loved those antenna phones back in the day. Smuggled one when on school too to watch some football lol
I remember I did owned a phone with TV tuner built-in in 2012-2013 if didn't mistaken. I use it until 2016 once that phone is broken.
At that time, analog TV in Malaysia and Thailand still on air until at least mid 2017 where the analog TV starting closing analog TV and replace to digital TV since early 2016.
Since I live not too far from Thailand at that time, I received 6 Malaysian channels and 6 Thai channels. But if I live on another side on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia, I can get total of 13 channels (7 Malaysian channels and 6 Thai channels) on analog TV.
But since nowadays TV goes to digital, I can get 15 Malaysian TV channels, 22 Thai TV channels and 17 Malaysian digital radio channels. Those who living near to the border can get up to 37 TV channels and 17 radio channels.
Thanks Antenna man.
At least some cell phones and tablets still have an FM radio receiver in them today, mine does thankfully. It kinda sucks they made it where you gotta use headphones as an antenna, but hey that makes sense I guess. At least it still has an option to play through the loudspeaker regardless.
In so many ways, this is a great video! Thank you!!
I freaking love your videos
I was waiting tables during the mid 2000’s and lots of Japanese businessmen would come in for dinner that had the sickest cell phones at the time. One had t.v. much like the ones on this video and others had ability to translate English to Japanese using the camera, way before apps were a thing. I was dumbfounded at the tech.
Hey Tyler, I was at Lowes today and I came across a new TV antenna I hadn't seen before. It was a General Electric Ultra Pro Quad-core Max HD.
Wish you had been in my high school. Never a dull moment.
its still so wierd to see all my local channels come up in your videos 😂
7Seg tech used in Japan to transmit digital TV was designed to allow to digital TV reception on portable devices, unlike ATSC. I toyed around with one back in 2008 when I was in Japan. Pretty neat tech that worked well, and got good reception, even inside a shopping mall!
1Seg. Not 7Seg. Full Seg (480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p) and 1Seg (240p)
South Korea uses ATSC on household digital TVs, but for handheld DTVs, they used T-DMB.
@@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY oh, so the video on portable devices are 240p not the higher resolutions, correct?
@@andywolan 240P for 1Seg; great for moving vehicles even without glitch, FULLSEG from 480p - 1080i (also on some portable devices)
Great video. Loved the school story too!
"I kept the balun of a smashed antenna in my locker at school...." 😆
In Argentina we had some Motorola Android phones and Government scholar netbooks with digital TV Antennas back for Brazil 2014 World Cup
I follow several YT channels that comment on medial and popular culture. Every so often the topic of broadcast TV comes up and most of the hosts and panelists seem woefully ill informed about the fact there are a significant number of people out there that still choose to receive broadcast TV. Most of these RUclipsrs are exclusively streamers and have left broadcast and cable in the rear view mirror long ago.
What I have noticed around my neighborhood is that there slowly more and more antennas popping up where people used to have satellite dishes. I myself watch both broadcast and streaming. I just don’t see it going away anytime soon.
This was a fun one to watch! Thanks! Now lets get a video on the mystery of your house.. hmmm...
Mr. Antenna Man, can you recommend a tripod, about 6ft high, I can use for an indoor tv antenna. There are tripods for speakers, photography screens and lights. Will one of those work for a tv antenna?
My neighbor uses a tripod that was used for his scope. I think you got it at Bass Pro Shop.
@@fishtoledo Thanks for the suggestion. I've been looking at tripods on Amazon. There are tripods for satellite but they're for outdoor and 3ft at most.
heh, Good timing with the interview though, it being October, Halloween and all that ;), timing is everything lol
Nice trip down memory lane with the phone tv's. Thank you!
Need to see that ATSC phone, jus sayin' lol It looks nice.
My first two cell phones had FM radio tuners built-in. I miss that!
Superb work - keep it up - best technical file on RUclips for VHF & UHF antenna - with very accessible clear impartial objective and useful information.
It is fantastic to see a niche specialised topic receive such a considerable loyal following.🙂
It would be really interesting to see the Chanel dip into and explore some theoretical aspects of RF circuits also, reflectance, inductive & capacitive impedance (RF Match) resonant length of cables, vertical and horizontal polarisation and so on. It’s a very rewarding area of study & practical application.
I worked on RF technology over 20 years ago within the semiconductor industry, some of my knowledge has lapsed, it would be interesting to explore RF principles & the technology again, and it’s broader applications.
Continued success with the channel!
Mr Sibrinski is a Don as was younger you.
8 yr old me would've been blown away by this tech in the 1980s
@ 2:50 Pat I would like to solve the puzzle-
Exploring Ancient Ruins
FTW!
Great video. Thanks for sharing
5:34 That's the previous Rogers TV logo! 😂
here where i live there are still analog broadcasts of almost all the local channels mostly due to reception difficulties in rural areas government still doesnt want to turn the a transmiters off
back in 2010 i had one of these little analog tv phones and i used to watch the world cup's matches while in school, i was the coolest kid in the classroom
When I lived in Korea for 3 years back in 2013-2016 most Samsung, lg and other smartphones had this as standard. Even flip phone/feature phones had these too. Was really common to see people on public transport like their subway system watching aired tv on their phone.
My first ever phone, was a phone with a tv turner in it. I remember carrying it during school camp, so me and my friend would watch a TV there
In high school around 2003/04 i used to use a hauppauge pvr 250 to record sports in my living room to my pc which is then streamed via opening the mpeg file to my bedroom! Reminds me in your setup but in the digital domain
Tyler: Let's see how this video performs...
Me: *puts the video on loop and goes to bed*
So far it's performing well! I took a risk with this subject as technical videos like this sometimes perform poorly. I'm thankful my audience is interested in it.
It's amazing how many seemingly different types of RUclips channels are now ripping on all the BS that is happening in the world with the incestuoul relationship between large corporate interests and governement. Antenna man, gaming channels, politics channels, nutrition channels, medicine channels, comedy channels, dating channels and so on and so on. Thank you for what you do.
I had a pocket pc since 2002. So i was watching video and had internet since then.
Antenna man. Quick question would it be possible to do a video about taking two antennas and combining them then sending that signal to two different rooms. Thanks love the channel
My first smartphone had TV Integrated, it was 2014, I was 14 years old and lived in Mexico, I used to watch cartoons and soap operas on my phone on the bus.
The phone was a ZTE and had analog tuner, but it stopped working in 2015 when our analog signal shut down.
Phones with tv were pretty popular in Mexico, I remember one time we were on a bus stuck in traffic on a Sunday and 4 people had their TV on because they were airing the final episode of a Survival Game Show.
I always wanted to do this with a laptop which is why I went out and bought TV tuner not soon enough. I used it out and about once I was waiting for a train in Chicago. Oh my gosh the number of channels!!!!! I've always grown up in like valleys with like 4-5 channels kind of thing. And this was not even counting the sub channels!