So using the HDHOMERUN Flex 4K with a device like the current Walmart ONN pro 4k (v2) or Google TV Streamer equipped with the Amlogic S995X5 SoC (CPU) should be capable decrypting DRM because both have Widevine L1 and can play back having the Hevc and Dolby AC4 codecs, but the A3SA would have to ...

Sunday Ticket and other services that have multiview options on Android TV don't actually support multiple separate video streams. Instead, they pre-select combinations of games and encode them together into a single video stream and have the app play that, then just do some magic to let the app ...

zippy wrote: Wed Aug 12, 2026 5:28 pm Can a current television manufacturer call their new tunerless device a television.

No, they'll call them smart displays or smart monitors or make up another term. LG already sells some, but they're not available in 55" or larger sizes.

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Many of the local broadcasting stations have been bought out by a few large corporations. The top 3 (Nexstar, Gray, Sinclair) own almost half of all US stations. Their market share lets them charge lucrative retransmission fees to the streaming providers (YTTV, Hulu Live, Direct TV, etc). These ...

I guess I need to simplify my question (for me to better comprehend). Is there currently a way or a future planned way to to allow the Flex 4k to decrypt Atsc3 DRM if approved by the AS3A? If so what will additional equipment needed and how will it work?

Hopefully the FCC will outlaw DRM, but ...

The rules for DRM when accessing a broadcast through a gateway device like an HDHomeRun are completely different than the rules for DRM when using a TV or set-top box. This makes some sense, as sending data over the network means someone could send it over the internet, and if one goal is to prevent ...

Which big corporations? Most of the big corporations involved are the big broadcasters and they want an immediate mandate for ATSC 3.0 tuners in TVs, a mandatory transition as soon as it is feasible, and the ability to DRM everything. Other big ones are the cable and satellite providers, and they ...

What possible reason would they have for dragging it out? It's in the best interests of everyone to have a clear path going forward. Hopefully one without DRM. It just takes time to get there because there are so many things that have to be decided and there was so much more involvement from people ...

If it's a plasma TV it's probably quite old. Many TVs from before 2010 and some from 2010 to about 2014 did not support decoding DD audio when coming in from the HDMI port, either only if it comes from the TV's built in tuner, or just not at all if it's old enough to predate the ATSC tuner mandate ...

It is not possible to downgrade the firmware.

The logs from your device indicate that you receive WESH from 2 different broadcasts, the primary full-power broadcast that serves Orlando and a low-power repeater that serves Ocala. At the time the channel scan was run, the Ocala one came in with ...

Our guide provider does not yet have data available for this channel. The last update we received is that they are working with the channel operator to get the correct data.

Just playing with it a bit, the debug number seems to be averaged over a longer period of time while the status.json is closer to instant, so the status one swings around more on channels encoded using variable bitrate.

We would like to get some diagnostic data to see what is happening:

In a web browser go to http://hdhomerun.local
NOTE: That address will go do the first HDHomeRun device found on your network. If you have more than one HDHomeRun device, use the "device ID" printed on the bottom of the unit ...

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