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    Ota Dvr

    I don't see any language on their site that specifically speaks to that question. It does say "Recordings saved to external hard drives are stored in full, uncompressed quality." This device cannot connect directly to a TV (i.e. no HDMI port). The only way its recordings can be watched is to...
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    Ota Dvr

    The new Tablo only transcodes if you use its internal storage. If you connect external USB storage, it will save recordings there in the original MPEG-2 format that it receives via the antenna. It's a pretty smart trade-off, IMO. Some folks won't care too much about picture quality and just want...
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    New ATSC 3.0 USB Dongle

    You specifically said "If your TV has Android TV built in, then yes, it will work with it." I was simply pointing out that Android TV (which is a specific Google-licensed variant of AOSP Android) is available not just as a built-in TV OS but also in boxes/dongles such as the latest Chromecast.
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    New ATSC 3.0 USB Dongle

    This tuner should also work plugged into a box/dongle running Android TV, such as the Chromecast with Google TV.
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    Yeah, they're continuing to talk about "4K HDR" but, as I said, the best we can probably hope for is 1080 HDR and we'll see if that even happens or if it's given enough bandwidth to look good. ATSC 3.0 launched today in Houston and it's the biggest launch in any market so far in terms of the...
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    It's the classic chicken-and-egg problem. TV manufacturers don't want to push a feature (which increases the build cost of their product) that no one cares about, but the national networks that produce the high-value content carried by stations have little incentive to support ATSC 3.0 when...
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    Virtually no one is buying a new TV just because it has an ATSC 3.0 tuner in it. And TV manufacturers seem to understand this. Check out the product pages on LG's and Sony's websites that showcase their various high-end model TVs that happen to include 3.0 tuners. Nothing about ATSC 3.0/NextGen...
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    It's the same with LG's OLED TVs on their website. ATSC 3.0, or "NextGen TV" as they call it, is barely mentioned at all. It's only included in the most expensive model, the G1, and only referenced way down on the spec sheet for it.
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    Yep. If ATSC 3.0 tuner chips (which are typically hybrid 3.0/1.0, I believe, because there will still be a need for 1.0 reception for many years to come) were as cheap, or nearly as cheap, as regular 1.0 tuners, then all TV manufacturers would probably include them in all their various models...
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    Yeah. There are all sorts of ways for 3.0 broadcasters to customize their signal, but essentially, at a given transmission power level, there's a trade-off between signal reception (how easily it penetrates into buildings, how far away it can be picked up, how easily it can be picked up by...
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    The stations are *hoping* for a revenue stream in ATSC 3.0. Meanwhile, TV manufacturers mainly just see added costs, not additional profits/sales. And we don't know that MVPDs (pay TV distributors) are going to pay anything more for the right to carry stations' 3.0 signals with enhanced...
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    Network-connected "gateway" tuners like the HD HomeRun Flex are actually what the NAB showed on their website and elsewhere when they began touting the concept of ATSC 3.0 five or six years ago since those tuners can serve up OTA TV to any wifi-connected screen in the house, not just smart TVs...
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    TiVo EDGE for antenna

    No station will be pulling the plug on their 1.0 station within the next 5 years anyhow because they won't have enough of their OTA viewers transitioned over to using 3.0 by then. The plan, though, is for more and more stations to convert their signal from 1.0 to 3.0 over time, as viewers update...
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    Yes, your comparison to 3D TV is exactly what I've been thinking may happen with ATSC 3.0. I could be wrong, of course. The challenge with 3.0 is that it needs collaborative support from three or four groups to achieve lift-off and succeed: local stations, national broadcast networks...
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    You're right that 3.0 signals are more robust and less susceptible to interference than 1.0 signals, which are pretty fragile. To be specific, 1.0 signals often suffer from something called multipath interference, where the signal waves reach the antenna from slightly different directions at...
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    Let's face it, external OTA tuners (whether in a network tuner like HD HomeRun, or an OTA DVR like Tablo or TiVo) are pretty niche. I have an HD HomeRun and it's great, it lets me watch live and recorded OTA TV through my Apple TV 4K box. But I can't ever see devices like that becoming...
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    ATSC 3.0 Coming to Hartford in October

    Yeah, when a station begins broadcasting in 3.0, they have to keep broadcasting on 1.0 for at least five years before they can voluntarily shut down the 1.0 signal. But a couple things would need to happen before a station would consider shutting down their 1.0 signal. First, pay TV...
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    Charge! TV coming to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton market

    Just FYI, you can also stream Charge! in the free Stirr app. It also has the Comet and Buzzr channels.
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    TiVo bolt

    Nope, as others have said, there's no point in buying a TiVo if you don't want to pay for service. If you only want to use a TiVo with OTA TV (never with cable), I would suggest the Roamio OTA Vox for $350 at BestBuy. That includes lifetime service, so no additional costs after that. Another...
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    TiVo bolt

    I owned a TiVo Roamio OTA for a few years and it has very good OTA tuners. I don't think there's much, if any, difference in the sensitivity of the tuners in the latest Roamio OTA Vox vs. the Bolt Vox. In fact, they probably put the exact same OTA tuners in both products. The main differences...
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    Interesting Video on ATSC 3.0

    I'm sorry, dude, but you continually make false and/or misguided assertions about ATSC 3.0. I enjoy a good back-and-forth and sharing of info on a forum as much as the next poster but what's the point if you keep saying stuff that just isn't true? Please provide links that back up what you say...
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    Interesting Video on ATSC 3.0

    Adding HDR, etc. to a video stream doesn't require much extra bandwidth. And while UHD would probably take over half of a station's available bandwidth, a good-looking 1080p stream, even with HDR, should require no more than 20% of an ATSC 3.0's approximately 25 Mbps of available bandwidth, i.e...
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    Interesting Video on ATSC 3.0

    What's unclear? The document you referenced clearly states that HEVC-encoded progressive scan video will be allowed up to a max resolution of 3840 x 2160 (UHD), but that, of course includes 1920 x 1080 HD. Here's the key excerpt (bolded emphasis is mine): 6.2.3.1 Progressive Video Formats • The...
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    Interesting Video on ATSC 3.0

    I'm not sure where you're getting that info. ATSC 3.0 definitely does support 1080p and it also supports HDR (although I don't believe one particular HDR format, such as HDR10, Dolby Vision or HLG, has been endorsed). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_3.0#Video...
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    Interesting Video on ATSC 3.0

    Yeah, no doubt that's a cause for concern in terms of whether or not ATSC 3.0 will succeed. Some people can't tell the difference between SD and HD while others of us can tell the difference between the picture quality of the average OTA 720p signal and the average 1080p stream from Netflix. If...
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