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Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years

posted by martyb on Monday May 29 2017, @03:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the Looks-Better==Is-Better? dept.

mcgrew writes:

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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 30 2017, @12:39PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday May 30 2017, @12:39PM (#517600) Journal

    Making TV better would require better programming, which costs money. Getting rid of the stupid (but cheap to produce) reality shows, quiz shows, infomercials. Fewer shows glamorizing cops/CSI/cowboys, and more good drama or real but expensive to produce news (not the "if it bleeds, it ledes" stuff). Instead, the networks have made content even worse (because it's much cheaper to produce).

    Well said. You can be fascinated by shadow puppets if the story is well-crafted enough. The story's the thing. Gluing sequins and jewels on the outside doesn't help if the box is empty. The box is still empty.

    I don't have cable (my observation has been that cable provides 200 channels of crap, rather than 20) but I do have OTA. I turn the screen onto "TV" once every few weeks (mostly it serves as a computer monitor), flip through the channels, and actually watch a program once every few months. Being drunk helps.

    It's amazing you do that much. When I encounter an old-fashioned TV with commercials I can't get away fast enough. If I happen upon one of those execrable filling stations that blare TV at you over the pump, I make sure not to go there again. We cut the cord 15 years ago and couldn't imagine going back.

    There was once a Simpsons episode, I believe it was, where they shut off the TV (or it broke, or something), and the children became well-behaved, pleasant. Marge and Homer started working out and slimming down and taking up art and music and outside the children gamboled on the lawn all to the strains of Beethoven's "Pastorale." It was a riot when I first saw it, but since giving up TV I have found it to be unexpectedly true.

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