The FCC will consider rules to phase out ATSC 1.0 and mandate ATSC 3.0 adoption, but its use of DRM has alienated pretty much everyone.
  •  HakFoo   ( @HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    2 months ago

    I bought an ATSC 3.0 device and it’s basically useless.

    It was an upgrade from an ATSC1 HDHomeRun box, which is legitimately nifty (park it in a corner, hook up a good antenna, and every phone or PC on the network can stream broadcast TV), but the ATSC3 experience is a non-value-add.

    There are ATSC3 channels here-- this was a test market, but nothing compelling. It’s mostly re-encodings of the same content for more efficiency. Nobody’s even saying “watch $special_event in 4K on the ATSC3 channel!”. Software support is flaky (VLC can handle ATSC1 perfectly, but the only software that handles ATSC3’s AC-4 audio is Windows-based and limited) so it’s a half-solution.