COMMENTARY: While America innovates, free over-the-air mobile digital TV is nowhere in Canada

By Steven James May REMEMBER WHEN YOU COULD take a little TV set with you, put its antenna up and presto – your local TV stations would flicker to life (perhaps inside a tent) for no fee? With a little innovation and work, those days are returning with digital broadcast and mobile devices, except for here in Canada, that is. With our country’s ATSC digital television transition in mandatory digital markets now complete (excluding CBC/Radio-Canada), these regions are ripe for ATSC Mobile DTV (MDTV) broadcasting. While ATSC digital television broadcasting allows for the distribution of both SD and...