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It won't. No telco in their right mind is going to put ATSC 3.0 capability in their phones. The current ATSC 1.0 has a mobile standard and it went absolutely no
by drmpeg 9y ago
It won't. No telco in their right mind is going to put ATSC 3.0 capability in their phones. The current ATSC 1.0 has a mobile standard and it went absolutely nowhere because of this same reason.
- ansible 9y agoSome of the other digital TV standards support mobile device use, meaning that it is practical to implement it on a device that is changing locations during reception. ATSC is not, and is difficult enough to receive from a stationary receiver. I don't see the new standard being very relevant anyway. The main use case for plain old ATSC is terrestrial broadcast. And now we're going to be pushing 4K over the air? I don't see that working out to well in practice. The cable providers really want you to use their own box, and encrypt everything going over the wire, to make piracy harder. And at some point, it is going to be easier to just go pure data, rather than cram a bunch of 4K channels down the wire. So who is really going to use ATSC 3.0 in the USA?
- cylinder714 9y agoAnd now we're going to be pushing 4K over the air? I don't see that working out to well in practice. ATSC 3.0 is rolling out as we speak in South Korea, in advance of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. I haven't seen any reports of how well it's working; as an enthusiastic antenna user, I'm dying to see how well it works over the air.