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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.

Agreed, he should stick to producing TV shows and get out of the channel owning business. He almost crippled his stations by trying to oust the weather teams from them. It was only when consumers fought back that he backed down. On top of selling his stations, he should put the Weather Channel...

Somebody probably got a bonus in the marketing division for recommending the rebrand to Max. That's usually how these stupid decisions go down.

Either they're old and don't know anything about streaming tech, or they don't like change. I haven't used cable TV in the home in over 8 years. I transitioned to Sling after cutting the cord and tried other stuff, but now I just use whatever out there is free. My Tablo has some pretty good Fast...

It would be more impressive if it had a meter on the box itself along with the ability to put in an RF number without the need of a monitor to be used. I know it's got a signal lock indicator, but having the extra info on the box itself would be more valuable. Like you said, these boxes are...

Competition is generally a good thing. There were competing standards for the original NTSC color standard before the backwards compatible standard took hold.

Disney needs to give up ABC and focus its efforts on the Disney brand and everything with their namesake. What benefit is it these days to continue holding on to ABC?

Where have you been? The FCC the past decade or more has been on the side of the broadcasters and cell phone companies. They were on the side of consumers back when the cable card was authorized for TV manufacturers and when they forced locals to be carried in the clear. Then, they reversed both...

I think they'll get their way on this. The consumer will get shafted, but that's been the plan all along. Those so called people's airwaves are at the bidding of whoever wants to pay the highest price. We'll get the DRM encrypted stuff on lesser bandwidth.

How many channels are up there now like that with all of the compression going on?

You'll never see any auction for AM because the band sucks and doesn't have much bandwidth at all. If you took out the entire AM radio band, you'd have 1.16MHz. TV requires about 6MHz of bandwidth. If anything, they should make that band all digital to allow multiple channels on one frequency...