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They're not likely to approve a network gateway product at this point since they're using excuses to avoid giving approval to HDHomeRun. They want a locked down system in which people depend on a box on each TV to watch what they want.

I use the same tuner to simplify my setup in the house, but the tuner sensitivity could be better. My LG TV and my Homeworx tuners outperform it on the ability to scan in channels. Anyway, I think you've got a good 5-6 years left before you have to worry about it becoming obsolete. By then, your...

Cable isn't what it used to be since streaming became the golden goose. Anybody can pull up a cable channel guide and see it's nothing but cheap, syndicated programming that you see all over broadcast and the free streaming services. Who wants to watch Law and Order on half a dozen channels...

lol Some people are still naive to think that the FCC will rule in favor of consumers and eliminate DRM with 3.0. This shows they don't care about the consumers anymore.

Ahh, so they increase the prices right before the holiday season when more people will be streaming holiday movies and shows.

As for timeframe, it was noted that no announcement for a mandate is likely to occur until after midterms because of the gravity of such an announcement towards such a closed system. The politicians are in re-election mode right now. So, we're likely looking at 2027 at the earliest, with about...

Circuit City's DIVX format was marketed as an alternative to DVD. It was built around the basis that DVDs would stay expensive like they were in the beginning and that people would want some other alternative to the point that they wouldn't want to necessarily buy the DVD outright, but they...

I'm sure some excuse will be given about the build out of 5G and that someone in the countryside could just link up a hotspot long enough to give the keys to a receiver, but most people in their 60's through 80's know nothing of running a hotspot. I could see some young person saying to grandma...

I had a little chat with Gemini regarding the DRM issue with 3.0. It's saying that DRM will likely become standard with 3.0 and that it'll likely be mandated to rollout within a 5-7 year timeframe. (I didn't ask about exactly when the mandate would come out.) I also asked about the lack of...

Why are you lumping broadcast in with cable? Those two areas are totally separate. It seems like broadcast kind of ebbs and flows with the seasons, but it hasn't gained back the few percentage points of a high it did have. Some of that could be viewer fatigue with the amount of reruns that...

I figure he's saying that if 3.0 and its drm was the norm with no 1.0 like certain broadcasters want it in a few years, he would've missed those weather warnings completely.

"Is it likely that all rabbit ear TV will cease to be free? Or cease to even exist?" If the current chairman is sincere about what he stated a few years back about carving up more UHF TV, it could hasten the end of OTA TV as we know it. They could potentially sell off one last chunk of spectrum...

They don't want people putting up illegal streams of OTA content and making revenue off of it. They want to keep it under their control and negotiate higher and higher fees from the streaming platforms, cable, and satellite. Some people are being doomsayers by suggesting that they're going to...

I had no idea some stations were moving their news to Internet only. I figured if anything that the networks would end up being nearly 24/7 news channels in the end. It seems like the news hours get longer and longer and expand while the tv shows keep disappearing around the clock.

Anyone with a cell phone these days can locate an adult movie in 5 seconds flat. I think the amount of adult movie channels have decreased from a large variety in the 2000s to just a few at this point. Premium channels seemed to have largely fallen out of favor as well with HBO reducing its...

I don't see any reasons for LPTV to adopt 3.0. With 1.0, it was about clearing up the spectrum and making efficient use of it. 3.0 just seems to be a control mechanism. Backwards compatibility needs to be maintained for the small stations that can't afford an upgrade and to maintain competition...

It's all about money. The broadcasters have all of the money on their side.

UHF is too valuable, but the VHF spectrum isn't so much. Cell phones would be ok with UHF, but there's no way you could fit an antenna to do VHF spectrum. Also, there's not much bandwidth available on the VHF spectrum side. You only have 42MHz of usable VHF spectrum on the Hi band. That's not...

That usually works with the two-legged ones at the grocery store as well. They'll think you've got "problems" and leave you alone.

You'd have to do that in an area with no air traffic. Otherwise, an airplane flying by would cancel out the signal.

Well of course the whole transition to 3.0 is not for the consumers. It is all about money. As cable continues to bleed customers and their broadcast fees take a dive, they want another revenue stream to take its place. They've already found out that they can compress the crap out of channels on...

I wish they had a free shipping only tier rather than lumping in a bunch of services I don't want. It doesn't look like I'm missing out on anything by cancelling that subscription.

I was thinking that it came out in 2009, but the funding was set aside in February of 2006. At that time, the debt was around 8.9 trillion. Well, with the cuts going on right now and that debt being $30 trillion more than then, I don't think there's any hope you'll see a coupon or gift card to...

I see nothing special. It's really just a club of people foaming at the mouth to turn a profit on new technology. I doubt they'll get their mandate. When the last mandate went out, the government wasn't so loaded up on debt and was able to provide coupons for buying boxes. They'll likely claim...

Justin, you put a lot into that spreadsheet. Thanks for sending that our way. That's very helpful! Btw, I wish my market had Movies! It would be nice to have a 24/7 movie channel that didn't require the Internet or streaming.