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[N5XZS]

ATSC 3.0 group is asking the Court on LG issue.

Here's the link...

NextGen TV Advocates Express ‘Deep Concern’ Over Future of ATSC 3.0 Products

Pearl TV files amicus with appeals court over LG’s withdrawal from U.S. market

www.tvtechnology.com

Enjoy reading the story!!

 

[John2021]

That issue and the drm will kill astc 3.0 lucky we don't have the drm in my area

 

[zaxcomtn]

I never understood stations turning on DRM. Their market share is already being eaten away by streaming services and OTT. So they deploy a technology to make the picture better to try and retain viewers, and then promptly put it behind a wall and block people from using it. Put copyrights on the tech that cause LG to back out. Not very smart. It reminds me of when TV was invented and movie theaters and radio thought it was just a fad that would fade away.

 

[N5XZS]

And besides who wants to pirate the FTA OTA anyways, which is heavily censored by the FCC with bleeping out 7 dirty words and blurring out nudity stuffs, and there's no high quality TV shows like Games Of Thrones, Sopranos, Star Trek Picard and many other top notch R rated TV or movies shows out there not available on OTA world.

The rest of other junks out there are mostly old shows back in the 50's, 60's and 70's has been beaten to death too many time and and same goes for religious and info ads junks out there.

DRM is a waste of time, bandwidth and money putting into it!!🤮

Only thing is worthy are sports and news on FTA OTA and tends to have pretty good ratings viewings audiences out there.

 

[Joe The Dragon]

I never understood stations turning on DRM. Their market share is already being eaten away by streaming services and OTT. So they deploy a technology to make the picture better to try and retain viewers, and then promptly put it behind a wall and block people from using it. Put copyrights on the tech that cause LG to back out. Not very smart. It reminds me of when TV was invented and movie theaters and radio thought it was just a fad that would fade away.

And besides who wants to pirate the FTA OTA anyways, which is heavily censored by the FCC with bleeping out 7 dirty words and blurring out nudity stuffs, and there's no high quality TV shows like Games Of Thrones, Sopranos, Star Trek Picard and many other top notch R rated TV or movies shows out there not available on OTA world.

The rest of other junks out there are mostly old shows back in the 50's, 60's and 70's has been beaten to death too many time and and same goes for religious and info ads junks out there.

DRM is a waste of time, bandwidth and money putting into it!!🤮

Only thing is worthy are sports and news on FTA OTA and tends to have pretty good ratings viewings audiences out there.

DRM lets them do pay TV OTA and they used to have that with uncut Moives and the late night adult movies

 

[N5XZS]

Yeah, but there are peoples out there just want FTA OTA uncut TV and movies with ads mixed in just like in Europe and besides most are sick of it paying for the good stuffs out there.

 

[Bruce]

Yeah, but there are peoples out there just want FTA OTA uncut TV and movies with ads mixed in just like in Europe and besides most are sick of it paying for the good stuffs out there.

If you want the good stuff, you will soon have to pay for it, advertising no longer supports OTA, if they did not currently have per sub fees, they would be gone.

Hence this move to streaming, gotta pay for the shows.

 

[zaxcomtn]

DRM lets them do pay TV OTA and they used to have that with uncut Moives and the late night adult movies

WOMETCO Home Theatre. Had that in the 70's. Special tuner box and antenna that brought in channel 67 and decrypted it. Was not too hard to break, they used sync suppression. This was the analog days.

Wometco Home Theater - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Joe The Dragon]

Chicago had
ontv
sports vision
Tele1st
Spectrum
Nite-Owl (free may of had an decoder to get videotext 24/7)

 

[N5XZS]

Joe The Dragon, Wow, that's pretty rare to have European teletext here in US market back in those days!!😎👍

 

[Radioguy41]

It amazes me that after all the failures along the way the industry still thinks it can control access to it's content. There has never been, nor will there ever be, a successful system. Remember how hard they tried to copy protect video tapes? Every attempt was broken. Heck, go all the way back to the Atari computer system. They thought they could prevent copying of their games by skewing the tracks. It was broken before you could turn around twice. What makes this even sillier is that there isn't a single standard network show worth paying for, not one, so this notion that they can make money by charging for content, no matter the quality of the image, is what comes of too much funny smoke in the room. Don't worry about DRM, somewhere someone has already hacked it and is just waiting in the wings to pounce should it ever actually go live.