Encryption

[jasonl]

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 than there normally is on FCC proceedings.

[cncb]

What possible reason would they have for dragging it out?

Money and appeasing big corporations?

[jasonl]

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 mostly don't care other than the broadcasters should have to pay for everything to maintain their status quo. TV makers mostly don't want a mandate, and having that confirmed sooner rather than later is better.

[jco23]

so my understanding as to why the HDHomerun devices are NOT unencrypting the DRM signals is because PearlTV/ASCA is NOT approving them, claiming that there is a chip in the devices made outside of the US?

don't the other "approved" devices have foreign parts/chips too?

If true, then this seems like a petty dispute - there has to be an underlying reason.

I get that the goal is completely do away with DRM, but what will it take to get PearlTV/ASCA to approve HDHomerun devices?

[nickk]

so my understanding as to why the HDHomerun devices are NOT unencrypting the DRM signals is because PearlTV/ASCA is NOT approving them, claiming that there is a chip in the devices made outside of the US?

No, that claim was a made up story.

The HDHomeRun actually doesn't touch the encryption - it is a requirement that the encryption not be removed so it stays encrypted across your home network to your player devices.

It is the player devices that need to do the decryption. The A3SA does not have a solution for all the player devices we support (even though these player devices support Netflix).

There is now one more complication - TV needs to also work offline, and DRM generally requires the internet to work. The exception is where A3SA keys are factory programmed into the player device, and obviously no player devices have these keys except specially made ATSC 3.0 boxes.