🔴 ATSC 3.0 - A possible REPLACEMENT?

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[AudiophileTommy]

ATSC 3.0 started out as a great thing but took a huge LEFT turn onto a DEAD end road !!! It now deserves to die a painful death 😡

[mikewurlitzer]

I'm perfectly fine with ATSC 3.0 being D.O.A. exactly like I'm happy with CBDC {Central Bank Digital Currency} being stopped. Neither offered the consumer anything close to offsetting what we'd lose. Neither seemed to be in our best interest. ATSC 3.0 would have made a handful who profit from encryption quite wealthy and the vast majority of consumers pay more. If "government" actually worked for us, I might be able to get a PBS and FOX station which are licensed to SERVE my county but not my physical area. I'd much rather see efforts go into serving electromagnetic black holes like I live in Western NY, and improving the sub-channels on the 3 towers I can pick up. I've seen clearer images through the bottom of beer bottles.

[ronguido]

The FCC needs to step in and put an end to all the DRM shenanigans. OTA TV should be able improve quality and coverage without big companies trying to change the way TV has been working for 80 years. As far as FAST goes even if local programing is on there I feel it will be a long time until high speed internet is an almost universal thing. The ISPs don't just don't want to spend the money to lay the fiber. There are still too many people who are under or not served. If done right ATSC 3.0 could be up and running in a few years and all most people would need is a cheap converter box similar to when we went to ATSC 1. LOVE your content but I think ATSC 3 is an important step forward in replacing what is now almost a 30 year old technology.

[LaurenGlenn]

All they need to do is stop DRM. I just got ATSC 3.0 and I finally have ABC in Philly over the air. Only ABC and FOX are DRM free here.

[MIKROWAVE]

If you have issues with ATSC 1.0 8- VSB breaking up when a plane goes over or just when it feels like it and you have a decent signal strength, that's multipath. 1.0 does a poor job on this. 3.0 is a true digital COFDM waveform that handles multipath. That is why you want it.

[timwindsor]

Thanks PETER. Much appreciated. Keep the content coming. Hope you have an incredible night. Much love and RESPECT

[iamda]

Hey Peter, BIG fan!!! I totally agree with you. This new service should be available to everyone over the air. Thanks for speaking up as always. :)

[cgutowski]

LG recently announced they are removing ATSC 3.0 from their TVs. Assume others will do the same.

[robertsilva]

LG didn't suspend its ATSC 3.0 implementation because they didn't like it - it was because of a patent and licensing fee issue with one of the makers of ATSC 3.0 components - which you didn't mention.

[MichaelsHomeCooking]

All I have to say is.... thank you for this video and your time

[AAa-qdhb]

FCC is not forcing down ATSC 1.0 TV stations that do not want to downgrade to failing DRM ATSC 3.0 NEXTGEN-TV. ATSC 1.0 TV may be here for a long time until open source no DRM ATSC 4.0.

[estried]

This mess reminds me of the RIAA and what they did to digital music. The consumers have to stand up and push back against this crap.

[AAa-qdhb]

* OTA DRM ATSC 3.0 is failing because of DRM (No OTA TV for you).
* Current OTA ATSC 1.0 TV stations are not being forced to downgrade to DRM ATSC 3.0 NEXTGEN-TV.
* (IMO) Do not buy ATSC 3.0 TVs until DRM is removed.

[wklorenz]

Changing channels on my Tablo 4 is slow. You have to go left, up or down and then hit enter wait for the buffet and finally watch??
After channel change it buffers and then plays? Changing ota channels on my Samsung TV is fast, just up and down. Never buffers.
Any ideas?

[NeilSchubert-rg]

The existing ATSC 1 system is somewhat adaptable to being able to transmit Mpeg 4 / H264 video, it just isn't allowed by the FCC at this point. One could use the secondary channels to broadcast 4K as long as the main channel is Mpeg 2. Older TVs would not be able to decode the secondary channels but would decode the main channel. Many TVs are already capable of playback of mpeg 4 as a separate program stream on an atsc channel (bandwidth). Digital Rights Management and Encryption isn't gonna fly with the public. That would be the demise of ota broadcast television. So far, I haven't seen any real advantages to ATSC 3. I also don't see any financial gain to area targeted advertising. This would increase costs and decrease revenue for a TV station!

[PWingert]

Most of the IPTV cable companies are already limiting cloud based recordings to 30 days. You have missed the boat on that one, at least in Canada.

[impossiblescissors]

Good video. You're saying what a lot of people are thinking, but the industry isn't ready to admit. With no mandate forcing ATSC 3, it'll only happen if TV manufacturers put it in most of their models, which they're not doing. The push for DRM when it wasn't properly implemented on many of the ATSC 3 TV's already sold is just another nail in the coffin.

[Pazuzu-]

LG dropped nextgen tv because of an infringement lawsuit, not because of DRM. And the company that filed the lawsuit will most likely target Sony and Samsung next. So forget about nextgen tv, it's dead.

[MrMikey]

I love having my plex dvr and recording shows. I like to be able to enjoy the shows on my time. I also want to keep them as long as i want. I don't want to pay for steaming services to rewatch shows. I think the reception, video quality and more efficient video codec of atsc 3.0 is a needed improvement, however the DRM restrictions they want to put on it will likely be what makes consumers not accept it. I have an HDhomerun flex4k for nearly 2 years now. It was made before the DRM crap came in to play for anything but optional subscription services like Evoca.

[ThomasGrillo]

I was considering that very tuner you showed a screenshot from, but I'm legally blind, and could not read anything it was displaying. Do you know if there's an accessibility feature in the tuner that lets us enlarge the text it displays? By the way, I agree, FAST needs to be protected for everyone. Now that I know ATSC 3.0 is going to be a tier driven, paywalled product, I want absolutely nothing to do with it. I can't afford cable, or satellite. I can just barely afford slow internet. LOL I have to use an OTA antenna, and I'm SO dreading June of 27, which will be the end of live, OTA television, for me, and anyone else who can't afford ATSC 3. Thanks for sharing this.