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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:04AM
No it is straw man day: Take an interesting concern (e.g. possibility of using redundancy in media channels to exert subliminal subversion), or a concern which is distorted version of real possibility, smear antisemitism, racism, or other common antisocial tarnish over it, then post it as troll so that public forms and internalizes association between the concern and general cookiness. Presto: easy, inexpensive, effective and preemptive censorship.
It is possible to manipulate public in other ways, too. Make a persona (or a few) with which a target group can identify, and one (or a few) with which a target group is going to antagonize, and then let your two sock puppets "argue" on a topic you wish to build opinion about in the target group. It is actually an ancient oldie - Socratic dialogue, only on public message boards it produces stronger illusion of reality then in literature, because of its interactive (more lifelike) appearance.
That's why I became an AC, because I want to drive a point home: learn to separate the ideas communicated from what you think you know about those who source them, especially from what they are trying to make you think that they are, take the essence of those ideas and evaluate their own merit.