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Consumer Reports is running an article titled Free Over-the-Air TV Is Going to Get Better. They're rolling out a new standard, ATSC 3.0.
According to the article, you'll be able to watch OTA (over the air) TV on your phone or tablet! I wrote an article a few years back wondering why you couldn't already.
It's a fairly long and very informative article, but very much worth a read. It only talks about American broadcasts, no word about when or if it will reach other countries, but my guess is it won't be long.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:24AM
Graceful degradation was not a design requirement in analog TV, it was more of a lucky coincidence, or a result of evolution. In this case, only the people on the geographical margins suffer, but as the noise floor rises, this problem will affect more OTA-ers, which will prompt regulators to demand amends to the system, probably stronger forward error correction, and/or layered quality, with FEC being weaker for the additional information which carries more quality (resolution). Or, even if they don't push such a thing, then equipment producers will develop algorithms for their products to always try to reconstruct content from damaged frames instead of discarding them completely.
I say give it time. Analog TV probably itself haven't had good reception in its first decades.