But then the van headed down the Strip, with its tall buildings. Several times along the way, the image from MSNBC froze, especially when the van was stuck in traffic.
The system, due to hit the market in March, will cost about $1,300 for the equipment (not including the TV monitors) and then $28 a month for the TV service.
TV on your shirt: Sure, you can watch videos on some cellphones, but the picture is minuscule.
Now comes a solution. At CES, Samsung and Texas Instruments debuted the first cellphone with a tiny video projector hidden inside. It can shine whatever is on the screen onto a wall, the back of a notebook or even a friend's shirt.
It can show photos, slides, movies and live TV if your phone is set up for that.
The projector, which uses the same Texas Instruments technology as big-screen DLP TVs, produces a perfectly watchable image. But the first phone to use it, by Samsung, will be available only in South Korea later this month.
Here in the U.S., we'll have to wait to show "SpongeBob SquarePants" on an actual pair of pants.
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david.colker@latimes.com
