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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: 4, Insightful) by digitalaudiorock on Monday May 29 2017, @09:04PM (1 child)
As someone who records my TV content from OTA HD stations, I read absolutely NOTHING good into any of this, except that they'll probably receive even more push back around this conversion than they did around the conversion to digital.
It sounds like all the ATSC tuners become obsolete(?) which totally blows. Other than that, what do I get besides resolution I really don't need and possible many many times the disk space used?...and that's all assuming they don't manage to push DRM into this mess, which you know they want...or something akin to the broadcast flag [wikipedia.org] fiasco of years ago.
I'm still trying to figure out how pay TV companies were expressly forbidden from encrypting (or requiring a box for) stations that could be received over an antenna in any given market...yet somehow that rule mystically vanished as far as the digital broadcasts were concerned, even after the digital stations where all that was available. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the impression that many cable providers encrypt everything now. There seems to be no limit to this country's willingness to let corporations fuck up just about anything that's actually good is there?
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday May 30 2017, @02:24AM
Indeed, the best OTA I can get from my 4K TV is 2080i.
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