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Here’s an interesting bit of news for you– if you have a TV in your car ( and apparently that’s a more popular option nowadays than you think) pretty soon you’ll be able to receive the Qualcomm MediaFLO wireless broadcast network.

Seems that these guys took over some of the old analog TV channels– you know, the ones we were required by law to lose when we had to buy those new converter boxes?–and are now using them to transmit their own signals to our in-car equipment.

This won’t be free, of course–you’ll have to pay a subscription fee of about fifteen bucks a month, but you’ll get about a dozen channels.

There isn’t a whole lot of word yet on just what they’ll be broadcasting–the most likely things being music and children’s programming to keep the kids entertained while in the back seat– and I have to admit I’m rather conflicted about the whole thing.  This definitely does sound cool, but I find myself vaguely annoyed that I was required by federal law to hand over my free TV signal so that I could be charged for it in my car.

But still, even I have to admit, this IS pretty cool.

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