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It won't shut down the sports streamers at all. These people, and their customers, have a very different use case and this won't block them at all. They can j
by AdamJacobMuller 3y ago
It won't shut down the sports streamers at all.
These people, and their customers, have a very different use case and this won't block them at all.
They can just use an HDCP stripper and an HDMI capture card and then re-encode it.
Failing that, they can just point a camera at a TV.
Sports viewers care a lot less about quality.
I'm not saying you're wrong that they are doing this because of sports, but, it won't do anything to curtail that.
- jeffbee 3y agoI fail to see how encrypting the stream helps them stop this. If a sports re-streamer is just capturing OTA and distributing it verbatim, can't any random TV that could have received the OTA also receive said stream?
- drjasonharrison 3y agoI believe that none of the consumer TVs have decryption for ATSC 3.0. It's another box to be connected, and possibly connected to the internet to get updated keys.
- semiquaver 3y agoThis is the real WTF. How many times are they going to break compatibility with OTA TV? A TV purchased in 1955 could receive broadcasts for 50+ years until the digital cutover. Now I’m hearing that tvs purchased just a year or two ago can’t receive a signal without an upgrade box? It’s absurd.
- bobdvb 3y agoYou're both not wrong but that doesn't stop the lawyers wanting these measures. The practicalities of them are irrelevant to the legal team.