LOL. I think he means outdoor antenna.
I can't pick up one ATSC 1.0 station in my market (60 miles away). But I get all ATSC 3.0 stations with a small attic antenna. That's why it was a shame when one-by-one they DRMed. Fox held out until last week.
Strangely I am a lot closer to another market in the opposite direction and can pick up the major stations there, but the weather and sports are not for me.
I had my antenna pointed 170 degrees from the ATSC 3 stations and I still picked them up strongly with an attic antenna.
Silly.
You're not accounting for the most important factor, though - cost. Sure, I can find several different ways to stream all (most?) of my local channels. But they all cost money that way. Broadcast is free. That's the whole point - anyone can receive television regardless of (1) desire to pay for cable or streaming or (2) their socioeconomic status. But the big media companies don't want free watchers of their content anymore.
The ADTH NEXTGEN TV USB is a fairly inexpensive usb tuner is due to come on the market. One end plugs into the antenna and the other into a usb on an android device (Shield, Firestick, etc.). It will have its own android app. I hate to drop channels, but want my DRM channels. Do you think there is any way channels could recognize this tuner and utilize it?
No idea about that, but why bother when it only has 1 tuner? Also, Nextgen TV so far has been pretty much a scam until the patent issues are worked out. After that, it becomes a political issue, which could make things worse.
Any source with an app should be able to be captured by ADBTuner or AH4C, and therefore be integrated into Channels. No, it won't be out of the box and easy like with other stuff, but it will work and won't have DRM in the end-result streams and recordings.
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And expect it to be nerfed very sufficiently if it ever comes to market. No way on earth The Powers That Be will allow a device that can be used to remove DRM from a broadcast and potentially be rebroadcast and/or recorded.
That requires internet connection means that if you are caught being naughty with the dongle then your decryption keys are revoked and your device bricked remotely. Yes, that is all built in to the DRM scheme. Down to the ability to invalidate any recorded DRM program that the broadcaster or rights owner decides you shouldn't have access to anymore.
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I mean, the key doesn't change for months on end. What's stopping someone with using a devunit 4kplex to output the DASH video, audio and subtitle segments to a TAR file while just conocating said segments and then decrypting them locally with the static key? Shaka packeger go brrrrrr!
Broadcasters continue to push foward with their 3.0 plans step-by-step, the latest being an FCC ruling earlier this month. In the following video posted last month, the Zapperbox guy demonstrated streaming DRMed live and recorded TV from a Zapperbox M1 tuner to one of their "Mini" client boxes. They're working on A3SA approval.
Again, this will probably never work with Channels DVR but I figure everyone here is interested in knowing what's going on. Zapperbox hasn't even got approval to send DRMed content between those two hardware boxes yet, and although they do have Roku/Apple/etc. apps on their roadmap, those apps would have to be tied to specific secure A3SA-approved proprietary hardware.
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