Look at Pluto free streaming service with ads and some stations are uncut and uncensored.
I would not be surprised this would be beginning dawn of ad supported R-rated diginet networks regardless of the FCC likes it or not.
FCC needs to grow up accept the reality in Corona virus and 2nd great Depression where are lots of people can't afford pay TV streaming services or pay cable and satellite services.
Also FCC needs to stop relying on PTC's false information and reporting and be more open minded.
The people are tired of seeing high quality movies or R-rated TV shows are being chopped up and censored.
This will be free to air OTA Pluto TV versions!
No pay TV services will survive on FTA OTA world.
This is a brave new world my friends!
There metric is not how many viewers they have, but rather their total income. If TV stations really cared more about viewers, they would not be charging exorbitant retransmission fees.
You forgot to mention horrific graphic violence! It apparently sells, or they would not produce such violence AND filth.
They are not getting the ad revenue they used to get. So, they have to make it up somewhere.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they will go for a mix of both free and paid content.I really suspect most OTA will be pay TV when ATSC 3.0 is fully implemented. Those buggers are just NOT going to pass up the revenue stream the conditional access side of ATSC 3.0 will provide for them.
I hope you are right, but I am expecting a free watered down .1 main channel in ATSC 1.0 480i with local news and weather and then all the rest in a HEVC encoded pay tier.I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they will go for a mix of both free and paid content.
I just hope that they stay the course with free local content from each of the 200+ U.S. broadcast markets...
I think it will be a mix. After all people are used to Free OTA TV and OTA wants viewers. Charging for a service that is free today it not going to make viewers happy. If I was to guess, what is free today will continue to be ad supported Free TV, the Networks & diginets. There will be ads on the free TV side trying in intice the viewer to buy the pay service. Now, they are talking about a pay tier. Some company in ID already has that set up, like a tier of 55 paid channels of news & sports, not available with normal OTA TV. Some of that available bandwidth will go to that I am sure. The companies want to re-coup what they have to dish out upgrading to 3.0.
One thing I am wondering about with the technology will the viewer be able to DVR their shows and skip over ads? The TV stations do not like that of course, but is the viewer going to to willing to set through 10 minutes of ads during a half hour show? I think not.
Yes, they'll be coming up with plans to offer MVPD services to get some revenue.
In the U.S., the initial concept and technology for pay-per-view for broadcast television was first developed in the early 1950s, including a crude decrypting of the over-the-air television signal and a decoding box, but never caught on for use at that time. It took another four decades when cable broadcasters started using pay-per-view on a widespread basis.[16]
I am expecting a free watered down .1 main channel in ATSC 1.0 480i with local news and weather and then all the rest in a HEVC encoded pay tier.
The TV viewers will not tolerate anymore of video cramming if this crap keeps up.
I think you're right on the target. They're not likely to start charging for the diginets because they've been free for years. Yes, they'll be coming up with plans to offer MVPD services to get some revenue. Not only that, but there's talk of sharing much of their bandwidth with wireless broadband providers. If many stations go with MVPDs and wireless broadband services, then they may reduce everything else besides their .1 channels to a crappy quality. I have a local market that's not transitioning in the near future, and I receive another market that's currently in a transition. After seeing how they stack the diginets with no regards to quality for anything but their .1 and .2 networks, then they may apply the same strategy when it comes to sharing the next gen signals. If that's the case, there won't be any advantage to picture quality unless you want to watch the networks (I don't).
Channels in that second market have gone from maybe 1-2 mbps like my local market to less than 1 mbps. We're talking bitrates of maybe half that of a VideoCD in some cases. If there's any action sequences, you can just ignore them because you won't see anything until the action stops and the mass of blocks quits clogging up the screen.
I think everything interesting will go to the pay tier. We may still see some emergency broadcasting in the clear. But our OTA broadcasters have been wanting to go to PayTV for 50 years at least. Now they'll just do it.
IMHO we'll be lucky to have a watered down free main channel!
Whatever ATSC 3.0 ultimately turns into will be consistent with the wishes of the broadcasters and not the consumers. The more I hear concerning MVPDs being allowed access and wireless broadband being allowed access, the less thrilled I am about moving to the next gen tech.
If all of the diginets were offered at a subscription fee in one package online, I'd probably be tempted to buy into it and ditch my antenna completely. However, I wouldn't pay more than $5/month for such a service.
- They will very probably have no choice!
- The amount of commercials that are allowed these days makes commercial TV unwatchable IMHO. And yet, "TV viewers" tolerate it and have for years.
When I get stuck in a hotel room with no DVR, I am aghast. Now I take my FireTV stick. The last time I was stuck with no recourse, I had my Roku SE and the damn thing could not navigate the terms and conditions web page.
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