Regardless of what happens with ATSC 3, we still desperately need a replacement for 1.0. The DVD-era encoding used as obsolete and inefficient, which means a waste of radio spectrum and everything that is recorded taking up much more space than it needs to. Unless of course you choose to re-encode ...

Unfortunately this does not seem to be an issue with WideVine vs. PlayReady vs. FairPlay. The A3SA has had several years to make progress. It is pretty clear that they do not want gateway devices of any kind on ATSC 3.0 DRM reception. They basically delay, delay, delay. I'm pretty sure SD has been ...

DKIM and SPF are in use.

The last 8 years of my professional life before retiring in 2023 was with a marketing automation company (email service) as a product engagement manager. It is increasingly hard - and expensive - to maintain your reputation as a "good sender" and stay out of the spam ...

They are putting on DRM/Encryption, so they don't have pirates setting up tuner farms and selling the signals cheap via IP tv, without them getting paid. IF it's all encrypted, AND pirates still steal the signals and sell them without the legal rights to do so, it's a whole different law to stop ...

I thought I read in the previous encryption thread that SD had implemented a round-trip-timer to limit SD viewing to within the LAN of the installation? That is what A3SA required. So, it would seem that A3SA could approve SD devices for viewing only, if recording is actually the delaying factor ...

The one I was referring to is not listed there. Not trying to be cryptic but...

Ha ha, too funny all the weird dancing we have to do to communicate in this quaint forum. I think I found the product you are referring to. They don't mention DRM either? Entirely possible that the A3SA part of their ...

I don't see anything on that product page about DRM support. So they are just as much of an ATSC 3 gateway device as the SD Flex currently is. Full gateway support for non-DRM channels. But that product is not actually even for sale, is it? You have to click and fill out a form for a quote. Ooooh ...

*Note to forum moderators - I had to space out the spelling for **** in order to get it to display, this is a perfectly legitimate media center which does not condone piracy but 3rd parties make pirate add-ons available for it. This has nothing to do with the media center software itself, in fact ...

Enphase iQ8 inverters can do what they call 'solar backup', which can form a microgrid and provide power without batteries.

Wow, that's really cool. Hopefully more installers will recognize this and offer the option. 99% of them say "oh, you need a battery if you want your own panels to power ...

Also, (at risk of beating a dead horse) we gateway DVR users are a small fraction of a small fraction that are even interested in OTA anymore. Congress might have a hearing but the A3SA will wheel in a S*ny TV with full DRM support and say "see, nothing to see here, OTA works as it always has ...

Should we regard this as coincidence or is this competition "rigged"?

It seems to be the broadcasters' plan to eliminate all DVR features under ATSC 3.0. But they are doing this via highly technical "death by 1000 cuts" rather than outright banning. Clearly they only want ATSC 3.0 to be viewed ...

Will DRM encrypted ATSC 3.0 channels play on 2023 Samsung televisions?

That's a loaded, confusing, or at least incomplete question, I think. A Samsung ATSC 3.0 tuner within the Samsung TV can be certified to DRM decrypt if they want to do that. But a 3rd party APP on the Samsung Tizen OS will ...

Will DRM encrypted ATSC 3.0 channels play on my XBox or my Windows 10/11 system?
No. ATSC 3.0 uses Google Widevine DRM encryption which is a competitor to Microsoft PlayReady DRM encryption. This issue is not specific to the HDHomeRun product. A3SA is aware of the problem. There is no solution ...