![]() ![]() I am not generally in the camp of getting tired of things and voluntarily replacing them while they are still fully functional - quite the opposite. How will my TV give out? Electronics are pretty reliable these days. The only OTA I really care about is PBS and a lot of their stuff is free to stream. I will probably install something when I get around to it at my new place that I own but it is very low priority. I haven't watched OTA in six years but that was in part because I was in a rental and I wasn't going to lay coax in the walls of a house that isn't mine. To the original question it has no impact on my purchasing decision. I power it up once a year and in recent years I literally cannot find anything I am interested in listening too. I was thinking (and should have stated) more of the content, not actual operation.Īgreed one of my family heirlooms is my great-grandmothers 1941 "all American five" Emerson AM radio that I fully restored electronically 20 years ago. There are plenty of stations on the AM dial, and the clear channel stations can still be picked up hundreds of miles away. The car I bought in 2016 receives AM stations, and in the car radio tradition, very well. The writing is on the wall, OTA is going the way of A.M. Will the TV have DVR capability? Would you really watch TV without the ability to time-shift, skip commercials, pause & rewind? I'm having a hard time imagining someone concerned about bleeding edge tuner standards but so archaic that they regularly watch live video with no DVR control at all. 3rd party devices virtually always work better. That's like worrying about what streaming services your TV supports. I haven't see people use OTA TV in so long that I forgot that it was still a thing.īut if I was going to use it, I wouldn't pay any attention to whether my TV had it built in. I tried picking up a broadcast TV signal years ago and finally determined that I'd need a roof mounted antennae for it to work and I didn't want to fuss with that. Part of that is because I live in a heavily wooded neighborhood almost 30 miles from the broadcast towers for my city. Almost everyone I know gets their TV via cable, fiber, of streaming. I don't know anyone that uses OTA broadcast. Sounds like a great reason not to buy any new TVs until things shake out. The FCC published its final rules on ATSC 3.0 to the Federal Register on February 2, 2018, and they formally took effect 30 days afterward.Īs the transition is voluntary, the FCC will not require ATSC 3.0 tuners to be included in new televisions, and there will not be a subsidy program for the distribution of ATSC 3.0-compatible equipment.Wow, that's the worst mess I've heard about since the FCC put the analog channels too close together and made it impossible to use consecutively-numbered channels. It is unclear how the complications of this approach would be overcome, especially in light of spectrum reallocation in heavily populated markets. ![]() After sufficient consumer adoption, ATSC 1.0 transmissions would be abandoned, allowing stations to return to operation on their owned transmitters. At the same time, the broadcasters would share the remaining transmitters for ATSC 3.0 transmissions. ![]() Instead, it has been suggested that multiple broadcasters in each market cooperate by locating multiple degraded ATSC 1.0 services on a single transmitter. The FCC will not allocate a second channel to each broadcaster to enable a gradual consumer transition. The order does require stations to provide sufficient on-air notice about transitions to ATSC 3.0 services. ATSC 1.0 signals will still be subject to mandatory carriage rules for television providers during the five-year simulcasting mandate the FCC stated that voluntary carriage of 3.0 signals by television providers would be left to the marketplace. ![]()
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