Will Tablo support ATSC 3 encrypted? I am looking for a quad tuner and even if ATSC 3 encrypted is not supported now by Tablo (I do not believe so), do you know a rough timing on when that would be released? My current DVR is having technical difficulties right now. I do not want to buy an ATSC 1 again to find out 2 months later I could have gotten a tablo with atsc 3 encrypted recording.
Here’s the latest from Tablo. Please notice that this was more than a year ago.
ATSC 3.0 is a complete mess today. I’m not saying that someone won’t utterly destroy NA OTA, but, I think it’s unlikely. That is, I don’t expect ATSC 1.0 to go away anytime soon, nor the “fear factor” that “all good things” will shortly be ATSC 3.0 only. There’s just too many barriers at the moment. And people continue to buy “new things” (like TVs) that do not support ATSC 3.0.
IMHO, at a bare minimum, 7 years out. But, the industry could surprise us all by nuking (effectively) USA OTA, but again, I think that would be a huge mistake.
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IMO there will be no clarity on the next gen path forward for years yet, and it will be even more of a political football than previously. Definitely not making any upgrade plans; for/to what?.
See antenna man and lon also:
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Btw, if the idiots at NextgenTV, removed the “nonsense”, we could be at ATSC 3.0 (side by side with ATSC 1.0) with full support of what we know and love today in a very very very short period of time. But, for now, they are digging in. It’s possible that the whole thing will go down as one of the biggest self-inflicted technology mistakes in USA history.
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With all the mess around ATSC 3 I’m in no rush for it. I keep praying our TV’s hold out as I don’t want more tuner boxes to use my older TV’s.
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