Mobile TVs Get Ubiquitous

Engineers have managed to squeeze a TV tuner into all sorts of mobile gadgets, including laptops, personal media players, and cell phones. The popularity of mobile TVs in Japan and Korea was demonstrated on Mar. 24 when national baseball teams from the two neighbors played at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles in the final of the World Baseball Classic championship. Many young office workers who were out in early afternoon squinted at the tiny screens of their cell phones as they tried to catch the final minutes of the game through mobile TVs. These days TVs are a standard feature of high-end phones in Japan and Korea.