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High Definition TV Cellphones Coming SoonCellphones, which already double as cameras, Internet devices and music players, are poised to merge with the largest of home appliances - the television.
The cellphone industry is working to build phones capable of receiving high-definition television signals over the air, even though HD television has yet to make its way into most American living rooms.
Texas Instruments, the largest maker of computer chips for mobile phones, says it is developing technology that will allow wireless handsets to receive hundreds of high-definition channels. The phones will not be marketed until 2007.
Although Sprint and AT&T Wireless currently offer a service that allows cellphone users to watch live streaming video from about a dozen television channels over the cellular networks, the picture delivery is very slow and not much like a real TV viewing experience.
The push into high-definition television reception by Texas Instruments and a handful of other chipmakers could change all that.
"There's no reason why, in three to four years, you won't have 200 channels on your cellphone," said Marc Cetto of Texas Instruments.
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