![]() ![]() I only brought this up because I saw one of those ridiculous commercials on TV selling plain old antennas saying they will give you 4k TV.Ĭonsidering ATSC 3.0 is supposed to launch officially this month, I've got to assume there are SOME TVs that can do that, but the rest of us will need add on tuners. I can't imagine what audience they think will utilize it. OTA television is in decline, especially with younger viewers. It should have been H.264 with 1080p capability.Īs far as internet functionality, it seems so random and pointless. I always felt HDTV was dated when it launched in the country. I wasn't aware that DRM was going to be a thing with ATSC 3.0. My fingers are crossed for them to bring out something pretty much identical to what we have, but with an upgraded tuner. It's even possible the recordings will be encoded so that you cannot skip past commercials (a la streaming apps).ĭRM depends on the broadcaster, though I hope that at least some stations will elect to broadcast ATSC 3.0 without DRM. In some ways it probably won't be as good because of DRM: you may not be able to record everything, and what you can record, you may not be able to play back on any device other than the one that recorded it. If so, they'll probably cost more, maybe 2x-3x what an HW-150 costs, but not an outrageous amount. They may use an OS such as Android instead of proprietary firmware, with the functionality provided by an app. ATSC 3.0 tuners will have Internet access, so any such boxes will include Ethernet and/or WiFi. I have no knowledge, but I'd speculate that if/when ATSC 3.0 chipsets precertified for all the DRM ("Digital Rights Management") become available, the Chinese will build a box around them and importers like Mediasonic will sell them. ![]()
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