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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: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday May 30 2017, @02:20AM (2 children)
Also all that 4K OTA goodness is going to require either a new converter box or a new TV
You may be able to simply update software, especially on a "smart" TV. Digital, unlike analog, doesn't always require rewiring.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 30 2017, @01:37PM
I'm not aware of that being a thing. Its like Android phones, the software development stops permanently before the first retail unit is shipped. It is technically possible, yes.
Its quite possible if things are optimized enough the hardware isn't going to have the oompf to handle it. There is no software way to make a 1st edition / model roku settop box handle 4K although the newer ones do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @02:13PM
Hardware-accelerated decoding says "probably not". If your smart TV has enough CPU to decode h.265 in software, somebody done goofed -- they could save a whole dollar going with a cheaper SoC.
If your smart TV is new enough, there's a chance it may have hardware support to decode h.265, and then all you have to do is hope the manufacturer deigns to push a software update rather than simply changing it for next year's models and hoping you'll buy that.