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> is an IP-based signaling platform capable of supporting enhancements and advancements such as 4K video, advanced advertising and immersive audio. US broadcas

> is an IP-based signaling platform capable of supporting enhancements and advancements such as 4K video, advanced advertising and immersive audio. US broadcasters are deploying ATSC 3.0 across dozens of markets. Sounds like nothing of value was lost At this day and age, few people care about it. And ATSC "legacy" will continue to work so you can still watch your local news (or Days of Our Lives I guess)

toast0 3y ago
> At this day and age, few people care about it. And ATSC "legacy" will continue to work so you can still watch your local news (or Days of Our Lives I guess) It will it until it doesn't. My market currently has two physical channels for ATSC 3.0, and the rest are ATSC 1.0. If there's adoption (or a mandate), I can imagine the ratio flipping. If you like you programming at low bitrates, you'll be fine as they compress everything down, but there's a lot of potential for better video on ATSC 3, if users and broadcasters switch. Otoh, using a poorly supported, non-free audio codec makes things unusable for me.
- AdamJacobMuller 3y ago
  > 4K video, advanced advertising and immersive audio Yeah, I mean, 2/3rds of this sounds great. Obviously both can be done without the DRM parts (some discussion on codecs and patents is warranted though).
mnd999 3y ago
Doubt anyone is going to miss advanced advertising.
dylan604 3y ago
>(or Days of Our Lives I guess) has any streamer taken the challenge of making the "soaps" available from their beginning? i can imagine this would appeal to a Peggy Bundy type eating bonbons marathoning her soaps.
- mleo 3y ago
  Not sure the service could afford it. 250 episodes/year times 60 years is 15_000 episodes to license.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    pretty much all of the networks that produced soaps have their own streaming platform now.
- Uvix 3y ago
  Most soaps are missing their early episodes; keeping all of them wasn't standard practice until the late 70s.
sbierwagen 3y ago
4K for sports would be nice. I upgraded to a larger TV recently, and 18mbit 1080i MPEG-2 does not look great on it.
- supertrope 3y ago
  4K won’t happen for a very long time. Broadcasters get the majority of their revenue from retransmission fees from cable companies. Their OTA broadcasts are a secondary concern. Their business model rewards adding more sub channels and therefore more ad slots, not cancelling the subchannels to allow the main channel to occupy the entire 6 MHz. Many viewer don’t own a 4K TV and on the content end the cameras on the fields don’t support 4K yet.
  - vel0city 3y ago
    Even the cheap TVs these days are 4K and have been like that for several years. Within a few years I imagine most households will own at least one 4K TV.
- kcb 3y ago
  One thing I've noticed is that the low bitrate sports content looks way better on my old Plasma than a new Oled.

toast0 3y ago

> At this day and age, few people care about it. And ATSC "legacy" will continue to work so you can still watch your local news (or Days of Our Lives I guess) It will it until it doesn't. My market currently has two physical channels for ATSC 3.0, and the rest are ATSC 1.0. If there's adoption (or a mandate), I can imagine the ratio flipping. If you like you programming at low bitrates, you'll be fine as they compress everything down, but there's a lot of potential for better video on ATSC 3, if users and broadcasters switch. Otoh, using a poorly supported, non-free audio codec makes things unusable for me.

AdamJacobMuller 3y ago
> 4K video, advanced advertising and immersive audio Yeah, I mean, 2/3rds of this sounds great. Obviously both can be done without the DRM parts (some discussion on codecs and patents is warranted though).

mnd999 3y ago

Doubt anyone is going to miss advanced advertising.

dylan604 3y ago

>(or Days of Our Lives I guess) has any streamer taken the challenge of making the "soaps" available from their beginning? i can imagine this would appeal to a Peggy Bundy type eating bonbons marathoning her soaps.

mleo 3y ago
Not sure the service could afford it. 250 episodes/year times 60 years is 15_000 episodes to license.
- dylan604 3y ago
  pretty much all of the networks that produced soaps have their own streaming platform now.
Uvix 3y ago
Most soaps are missing their early episodes; keeping all of them wasn't standard practice until the late 70s.

sbierwagen 3y ago

4K for sports would be nice. I upgraded to a larger TV recently, and 18mbit 1080i MPEG-2 does not look great on it.

supertrope 3y ago
4K won’t happen for a very long time. Broadcasters get the majority of their revenue from retransmission fees from cable companies. Their OTA broadcasts are a secondary concern. Their business model rewards adding more sub channels and therefore more ad slots, not cancelling the subchannels to allow the main channel to occupy the entire 6 MHz. Many viewer don’t own a 4K TV and on the content end the cameras on the fields don’t support 4K yet.
- vel0city 3y ago
  Even the cheap TVs these days are 4K and have been like that for several years. Within a few years I imagine most households will own at least one 4K TV.
kcb 3y ago
One thing I've noticed is that the low bitrate sports content looks way better on my old Plasma than a new Oled.