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I mean, those are effectively the choices, since the major impetus for ATSC 3 is the encryption. I'd honestly be fine with it if it were things like major sport

by LocalH 3y ago

I mean, those are effectively the choices, since the major impetus for ATSC 3 is the encryption. I'd honestly be fine with it if it were things like major sports events and other network programming that were going to be encrypted, but individual broadcasters (whether station group owned or not) are probably not likely to set things up where they can selectively encrypt, I expect most channels that broadcast any encrypted content will have the switch flipped to encryption 100% of the time. It should be illegal to encrypt OTA news and local interest programming.

joecool1029 3y ago
> I'd honestly be fine with it if it were things like major sports events Why? These are heavily subsidized by taxpayer money and the broadcasters are already making money off advertising on these events. > It should be illegal to encrypt OTA news and local interest programming. It was on hybrid cable systems, (analog and digital channels). Since they went all-digital they lobbied and got the FCC to make it legal to encrypt broadcast stations: https://www.fcc.gov/document/commission-relaxes-cable-encryption-prohibition https://www.fcc.gov/document/commission-relaxes-cable-encryp...