https://forum.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=80533
YES!
Look at the pdf on the FCC linked page
Silicon Dust: Hey! Is that a dead horse? I am going to beat it!
FCC: Go ahead. Meanwhile we'll go with the people paying us the most. What part of Washington Capitalist politics don't you get? Oh, all of it.
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
My prediction is the FCC is going to allow sunset of ATSC 1.0, do nothing regarding DRM, not mandate ATSC 3.0 tuners, let ATSC 3.0 die on the vine, then reclaim and auction off the public spectrum to the highest bidder(s) for billions.
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... and every OTA station will remove their antennas and become "Over The Internet" stations, several years before they die completely.
"The A3SA currently requires Widevine DRM. Widevine DRM is not a standard, but rather a proprietary DRM scheme owned by Google. ...requiring a proprietary decryption box in the home to decrypt and watch television is not broadcast TV."
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But not before also doing another repack to lower/lower power (worse) spectrum to also rake in the dollars:
