Sinclair now owns 8% of Scripps (owner of Tablo), and is in talks to acquire Scripps via a merger.
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We may see a Gen 3 Tablo Pro Max maybe after the merge?
Already preordered the Tablo Quantum AI Pro Gen š²
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Get ready to pay a monthly fee to watch OTA TV!
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I assure you that will never happen. I will go back to watching radio before I pay for TV.
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British: Whatās this free TV you talk of? (and) You watched radio?
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Yes I watched radio. The toaster had burned out.
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Those TV toasters can be a bit pricey. 
If only it was ATSC 3.0 compatibleā¦
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But it is. First toaster that makes perfect toast that you cannot eat (DRM).
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I can imagine the āTablo divisionā being one of the first things āto goā. But, weāll see.
I would not expect all the ākum ba yahā statements from Sinclair about ākeeping stuffā to be honored at all. IMHO, nukes will drop. The only winners will be those that have a thing for craters.
Of course, none of this āhas happenedāā¦ may never happen.
Originally sinclair wanted to partner with an Indian company to manufacture an ATSC 3.0 dongle. They were a founding member of pearl tv. They also demonstrated ATSC 3.0 āBESTā (Broadcast-Enabled Streaming Television) channels at CES a few years ago.
They are basically getting nuvyyo for free as part of the deal. So it should be telling what they do with it.
Uh, the Nuvyyo as we knew it died the moment Scripps displaced their engineering and tech with their own self designed (supposedly competing) DVR. They pooped on the heads of Canada and what was known as Nuvyyo. Do they have interest in Scripps DVR? Maybe, but IMHO, only to kill it. Weāll see. Again, may never happen. Remember Scripps punched back at the ārumorā initially. While they have increased their interest in Scripps, I donāt think itās quite enough for a semi-hostile acquisitionā¦ not yet. But, up to the shareholders and board I suppose. IMHO, broadcasterās are very unpredictable people. But tend to lean towards screwing the consumer whenever possible. So, whatever is despised most by the consumer, thatās likely what will happen 
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So are you saying that sinclair is giving up on ATSC 3.0 even though they just, via NAB, petitioned the FCC to allow the termination of the sunset rule. Patent trolls have jacked up the cost of ATSC 3.0 included in TVās. Resulting in LG leaving the market and others only including(enabling) ATSC 3.0 in high end TVās.
And SEC rules prevent companies to commenting on ongoing merger talks. This prevents wall street from gaming both companies stock.
What? No. Just DRM limited, restricted, controlled ATSC 3.0. DVRs as we know them, not really welcome. That is, no ākeep my recordingā, at best, you get to āsee itā as long as they want you to and that could end at any moment in time. Zero chance of remote viewing, and zero chance of accessing for āoutsideā of their controlled use. That is, even the 4th Gen, which is bad, even if it went ATSC 3.0, cannot be allowed, because there is, while bad, some accessibility āoutsideā and that will have to be ended. That is, the āin houseā one device only style of future ATSC 3.0 DVR, is just the tip, itās actually much much worse than that. While I donāt always agree with Lon.tv, heās starting to see the big (bad) picture.
IMHO, todayās Tablo is horrible. But even that has to be destroyed. Broadcasterās hate anyoneās ability to record and actually use their content (emphasis on hate). They will masquerade a level of highly controlled access and monetize as much as possible. It will be ultra-controlled and very very very very restricted. Itās their goal. Always has been their goal.
Under the broadcasterās forced redefinition of the English language, where ābroadcastā was redefined to include ātranscodingā and thus all transcoded OTA material requires a rebroadcast license (which in turn means big fees somehow)ā¦ but truth is, itās a private club, and they arenāt going to hand out that licensing to anyone (no matter what youāre willing to pay, and itās extreme folksā¦ but now itās infinite effectively). This is ultimately why OG Tablo is no longer available for sale IMHO (I still think theyāll figure out a way of completely obliterating existing OG owners usage, but weāll seeā¦ I think thereās some āstealthā so as to not reveal their true hand at this time, but they hold all the trump cards).
Iāve been harping on this for about 10 years and just now people like Antenna Man and Lon are starting to seeā¦ Itās time to take off the ābroafcasterās are our friendsā blinders.
The whole ATSC 3.0 NextgenTV debacle is fully of their own doing. So, why? Well, if you watched the above video, then you know the billions of dollars of debt to make local affiliates ATSC 3 ready (sold them a lie effectively) could be offset by big gift money of acquisition and consolidation. This wreaks-o.
Could it be that the tablo legacy is no longer made because the maxlinear tuners and pixelworks CPUs are no longer made. And at over 8 years old these chips are obsolete.
My local ATSC 3.0 stations donāt have DRM enabled and my STBās support AC-4 and my TV supports H.265 so Iām not sure what transcoding you are talking about.
Thatās like saying weāre ditching Windows because the Pentium 90 is no longer available.
Could it be that tablo used the software stack and APIās that were part of pixelworks. And since these were no longer available had to be re-implemented.