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    30 sec Commercial for Nextgen TV

    DVDs had some of those same features in the beginning, but the only one that remained was the audio track selection. If the format doesn't collapse due to lawsuits and DRM, I'm pretty sure most won't care about those things.
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    Email from Amazon about Prime Video

    I wish they gave you a free shipping tier option only. I don't have time during the year to watch any Prime video, and I don't care about music either. Like someone mentioned previously in this thread, the extras they bundle in aren't reallly "free". The shipping times have gotten pretty bad...
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    ATSC 3.0 DRM Encryption

    Yep, 3D TVs were all the rage in the early 2010s. Then, they ended up getting ditched for 4K. ATSC 3.0 tuners could become another door stop if the mess doesn't work itself out.
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    A new diginet called Nest TV goes on the air on 10-30-23...

    It's on 58.2 (formerly Stadium) in Nashville.
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    When will it be time to change the name of the site?

    AT&T first formed its name as an abbreviation for American Telephone and Telegraph. You don't hear about people using telegraphs, but they still kept the abbreviation as-is. If it's not broke, don't fix it.
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    Circle closing down at end of year

    I noticed that their programming has basically morphed into the same type stuff as any other channel out there with the same syndicated content. The only original programming they air is during the primetime hours. It seems nobody wants a Nashville-themed channel like in the old days. TNN tried...
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    ATSC 3.0 DRM Encryption

    Everyone's talking about the whole DRM thing while the patent wars are cranking up over 3.0. That alone could be enough to kill off the standard without considering DRM. If that one company can take advantage of LG and others, I'm sure other patent holders of 3.0 tech are talking with their...
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    AI, may solve video compression by 5,000 % for all radio transmission.

    10KHz is not much space to send any kind data at all.
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    Say goodbye to ATSC 3.0. LG has suspended inclusion of ATSC 3.0-compatibility in its 2024 television lineup for the USA

    Good riddance! I'm glad I didn't invest in the technology. If they're going to lockdown the technology and not allow consumers to record what they want, why even keep it around? Adoption has been slow to begin with. With the whole DRM debacle, just let it die already. Give us some enhancements...
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    ATSC 3.0 DRM Encryption

    Those that say, "It'll never happen" in regards to the FCC somehow limiting the free airwaves, never say never. The FCC has often went back on their promises to consumers. Remember when consumers fought to have the ability to have their own decoding equipment and we got the cable card? Now...
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    Eight CBS-owned The CW affiliates to become independent stations in September 2023

    Unfortunately that name is used for an OTT box overseas and a Michael Moore film. Surely the marketing geniuses at Nexstar can come up with something much better than "CW" to rebrand the channel.
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    Broadcast Ratings down 9% for 2022-2023 as Cord Cutting Speeds Up

    Nothing in that list is worth watching for me. I mostly watch OTA for the classic TV networks. If I'm really bored, I fill in with YouTube or PlutoTV. There are so many free options out there now with so much content that pay TV or Primetime on OTA network TV isn't even worth it. As far as I'm...
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    Silicondust started testing for Nextgen certification on June 3, 2023

    Live TV is going the way of the rental store. It'll probably exist in some form (Redbox), but it's relevancy will dwindle down. People want to watch what they want without a lot of hassle. ATSC 3 and its control structure is going to kill off what little demand there is for live TV via OTA...
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    ATSC 3.0 DRM Encryption

    I say let the lack of market demand kill off 3.0. I was all for new technology and improved standards, but if it's going to be used to take away the rights of consumers to record their content as freely as possible, then let it die. We don't need a coupon program to subsidize a model that only...
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    Another Milestone Achieved

    With the cost of everything else going up, who wants to pay for TV?
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    Is ATSC 3.0 sputtering or out of gas?

    I'm thinking that without another mandate, 3.0 will be a slow turtle dragging its feet in adoption. The problem is that there are too many alternatives now and so many people would rather stream their entertainment to their phone or tablet than to "tune in" a channel. Don't get me wrong, I don't...
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    Nexstar looking to purchase the CW Network

    In the current landscape in which ATSC 1.0 is still dominant, I would say that VHF or UHF broadcasting does make a difference. I don't know if 3.0 will overcome the noise factor, but you need good gain on VHF to overcome the noise factor and get a viewable channel, especially on VHF Low from 2...
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    MP4 OTA Testing

    I think it'll be quite a long time before you can cram 480i quality video into a medium wave broadcast of 10khz in bandwidth. You have to devote a portion of the bandwidth to error correction. With the HD Radio system, according to Wiki, at 10khz of bandwidth, there's 20kb/s of audio data...
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    Decades, Start TV, MeTV, H&I, Story TV all on Frndly TV

    I noticed that the Decades feed Frndly broadcasts doesn't match up with the guide on the nearest affiliate station. Instead of airing the Ed Sullivan Show in the mornings, they'll air some show called "Hollywood Remembers". During the night time slot for the Ed Sullivan Show replay, they'll show...
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    Nexstar looking to purchase the CW Network

    It would be nice if they would change the name to something that sounds more appealing than CW. I never cared for the name. I miss the old days of having a WB and UPN channel.
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    Oxygen OTA channel

    Back in the days of analog, I remember MTV 2 used to be OTA in some areas, so I wouldn't say it's the first pay tv channel to be on OTA.
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    5G and FCC eyeing 12 GHz sat bands...

    So does that mean FTA Ku users will have to build faraday cages around their dishes like the C-band users do because their filters won't protect 100% against terrestrial 5G? I can see FTA users posting multiple threads of faraday cages for this dish or that dish. I used to want to invest in FTA...
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    A new diginet called StoryTV will be launched on 3-28-22

    One of the nearby markets went to 3.0 and stacked multiple channels on a select group of towers. One group of channels included Comet at the end of the list with a bitrate of around 600 kbps. Any little bit of action on screen and the whole picture would be covered in a mass of macroblocks.
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    Can we keep track of new ATSC 3.0 stations going on the air?

    As long as the stations don't sell much of their bandwidth for datacasting or broadband to the point they have to compress the crap out of their channels, then it might not be a bad thing. That would be my concern about the new standard. In that case, even with a better codec and better quality...
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    Let's supposed what if we have a technological video codecs compression breakthroughs that coud fit in MW band?

    I don't think it's possible with the current compression tech. You need error correction bits packaged in to keep it from being a garbled mess at the least little error intercepted. By the time you add that in with the other parts of the packet, you've gone past your allotted bandwidth.
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