| Transcript |
| · | Intro |
| 0:00 | · | hey everybody it's ly and over the last |
| 0:02 | · | year or so we've been covering the |
| 0:03 | · | transition of overthe a television |
| 0:06 | · | signals from the atsc 1.0 standard to |
| 0:09 | · | the 3.0 standard and one of the issues |
| 0:12 | · | that we've been talking about here on |
| 0:14 | · | the channel relates to the DRM the |
| 0:17 | · | encryption that the broadcasters are |
| 0:20 | · | putting on their signals to prevent |
| 0:22 | · | people from retransmitting those signals |
| 0:25 | · | and this has created a lot of |
| 0:27 | · | inconvenience for people like myself who |
| 0:30 | · | want to watch and record TV like I've |
| 0:32 | · | been doing for the last 30 or 40 years |
| 0:35 | · | in the privacy of my home and in this |
| 0:37 | · | episode we're going to update you on |
| 0:40 | · | what's been going on in this space |
| 0:42 | · | unfortunately not much but we are |
| 0:44 | · | learning some new things about the DRM |
| 0:47 | · | including the fact that your device will |
| 0:51 | · | expire at some point how long it will |
| 0:54 | · | take until it expires we'll get to in |
| 0:56 | · | just a second let's get to |
| 0:58 | · | it now now let's start off though with |
| · | DRM Petition Update |
| 1:01 | · | an update on where we are at with our |
| 1:03 | · | petition to stop the DRM this is |
| 1:06 | · | something that the antenna man and I |
| 1:08 | · | have been working on we crossed over the |
| 1:10 | · | 10,000 signature Mark recently on our |
| 1:13 | · | way to |
| 1:15 | · | 15,000 and what's great about this |
| 1:17 | · | petition that we're hosting at |
| 1:18 | · | change.org is that every time somebody |
| 1:21 | · | signs it an email goes out to key |
| 1:23 | · | stakeholders to let them know that we |
| 1:26 | · | care about this issue so if you haven't |
| 1:28 | · | signed it please do and if you have |
| 1:31 | · | signed it please tell your friends to |
| 1:33 | · | sign it because this is an important |
| 1:35 | · | issue to keep in front of the FCC as |
| 1:38 | · | this process continues speaking of the |
| 1:41 | · | FCC the number of filings on the docket |
| 1:44 | · | for the atsc3 transition have crossed |
| 1:48 | · | 4,000 most of these now are consumers |
| 1:52 | · | writing in to express their displeasure |
| 1:55 | · | over broadcast signals getting encrypted |
| 1:58 | · | over public Airway |
| 2:00 | · | so definitely uh fill out a complaint if |
| 2:03 | · | you haven't already you can see that in |
| 2:05 | · | the link you see on screen and as things |
| 2:08 | · | develop here if I'm not seeing |
| 2:09 | · | sufficient progress there's a couple of |
| 2:11 | · | other things that we can do so stay |
| 2:14 | · | tuned get your keyboard fingers ready |
| 2:16 | · | because we'll probably have more filings |
| 2:17 | · | to make in the near future but we're |
| 2:20 | · | going to hold off on that at least for |
| 2:22 | · | now so let's begin with this expiration |
| · | Tuner Expiration Dates |
| 2:25 | · | issue I learned this week that there |
| 2:27 | · | will be a fixed exper ation date for the |
| 2:31 | · | atsc 3.0 DRM certificates that live on |
| 2:36 | · | these devices in other words when a |
| 2:39 | · | tuner goes out to pick up an encrypted |
| 2:42 | · | signal there's a validation to ensure |
| 2:44 | · | that the certificate is valid and that |
| 2:46 | · | device is allowed to decrypt the signal |
| 2:48 | · | those certificates will expire after a |
| 2:51 | · | certain length of time I did pull the |
| 2:54 | · | certificate out of my adth box by |
| 2:57 | · | monitoring Network traffic and I learned |
| 3:00 | · | that its certificate expires in 30 years |
| 3:04 | · | the zapper box after reaching out to |
| 3:05 | · | them also has a 30 year certificate so |
| 3:08 | · | that's certainly a good long time I |
| 3:10 | · | think it's probably going to be longer |
| 3:11 | · | than the atsc one standard will have |
| 3:14 | · | lasted for once we transition but |
| 3:16 | · | nonetheless every box will have a fixed |
| 3:18 | · | date in which it essentially stops |
| 3:20 | · | working at least for encrypted content |
| 3:23 | · | now as I was recording this video I did |
| 3:25 | · | get some information in from the atsc |
| 3:27 | · | you'll see another statement from them |
| 3:28 | · | in a few minutes they did say that the |
| 3:31 | · | minimum certificate length is 10 years |
| 3:33 | · | they have a 10 year a 15 a 20 and a 30 |
| 3:36 | · | and the pricing varies based on the |
| 3:38 | · | volume of the product the intended sales |
| 3:41 | · | of it along with the duration so some |
| 3:43 | · | may choose the shorter length |
| 3:45 | · | certificates if it makes Financial sense |
| 3:47 | · | to do so now one thing to keep in mind |
| 3:49 | · | here is that in my home I've got an HD |
| 3:52 | · | home run Prime that I've been using to |
| 3:54 | · | watch my cable TV stuff with that was |
| 3:57 | · | one of my first videos I did as a pro |
| 3:58 | · | YouTuber if you will will and that box |
| 4:01 | · | is now over 10 years old and still in |
| 4:04 | · | service so although people may upgrade |
| 4:06 | · | their TVs in shorter durations some of |
| 4:09 | · | these products may actually exist in the |
| 4:11 | · | home longer than a decade another thing |
| · | All ATSC 3 Devices "Phone Home" For Decryption |
| 4:13 | · | that I learned this week and was also |
| 4:15 | · | backed up by sniffing Network traffic is |
| 4:17 | · | that at the moment atsc3 devices are |
| 4:21 | · | always phoning home if there's an |
| 4:23 | · | Internet connection available when they |
| 4:25 | · | go to tune an encrypted Channel this |
| 4:27 | · | includes TVs that don't need an internet |
| 4:30 | · | connection to watch TV I've heard from |
| 4:33 | · | people who have been monitoring traffic |
| 4:35 | · | who have seen this exchange of |
| 4:37 | · | certificates over the Internet versus |
| 4:40 | · | over the air so if the internet |
| 4:42 | · | connection is there there will be some |
| 4:43 | · | kind of connection back to the |
| 4:46 | · | broadcaster servers for validation now |
| · | Zero Progress on Gateway Devices |
| 4:49 | · | this next bit of news unfortunately is |
| 4:51 | · | that we don't have a lot of news on the |
| 4:52 | · | status of DRM for Gateway devices what |
| 4:56 | · | is a gateway device well a Gateway |
| 4:58 | · | device is something like the the Tableau |
| 5:00 | · | or the HD home run where you've got a |
| 5:02 | · | box that you plug your antenna into and |
| 5:05 | · | then that puts the TV signal out onto |
| 5:08 | · | your network so you can pick up your |
| 5:10 | · | phone and watch TV your laptop your |
| 5:12 | · | smart television your TV box whatever |
| 5:14 | · | you've got with a screen you can watch |
| 5:16 | · | TV on and these devices have proven to |
| 5:18 | · | be very popular with consumers because |
| 5:21 | · | they largely replicate the experiences |
| 5:23 | · | they have with their streaming services |
| 5:26 | · | and what's been great about atsc 1.0 is |
| 5:28 | · | that there were no restrictions on using |
| 5:31 | · | a Gateway device in fact the Tableau is |
| 5:34 | · | owned by scripts a broadcaster and they |
| 5:37 | · | could not make an atsc3 product right |
| 5:39 | · | now because there's no way to make it |
| 5:41 | · | work due to the encryption so what's |
| · | ATSC 3 statement |
| 5:44 | · | going on here well the makers of the HD |
| 5:47 | · | home run in fact the CEO of the company |
| 5:50 | · | Nick Kelce uh put up a lengthy explainer |
| 5:53 | · | on their forums the other day about the |
| 5:55 | · | status of everything so let's begin by |
| 5:58 | · | looking at Apple TV iPad iPhones and |
| 6:02 | · | Macs right now because they are using |
| 6:05 | · | Google widevine DRM for atsc3 encryption |
| 6:10 | · | you're not able to currently watch |
| 6:13 | · | encrypted content on Apple devices and |
| 6:16 | · | of course Apple's always touting how |
| 6:17 | · | secure they are but apparently not |
| 6:19 | · | secure enough for broadcasters right now |
| 6:22 | · | so those are out another thing that's |
| 6:25 | · | happening is that Roku TVs and Roku |
| 6:28 | · | streaming boxes are also not compatible |
| 6:31 | · | due to this Google wide Vine issue and |
| 6:34 | · | there's also some other issues that the |
| 6:36 | · | folks at silicondust the makers of the |
| 6:38 | · | HD home run are seeing related to |
| 6:41 | · | installable apps on roku's tuning into |
| 6:44 | · | this protected content so we haven't |
| 6:47 | · | made any progress there although there |
| 6:49 | · | are apparently ways in which a Roku TV |
| 6:53 | · | that has an atsc3 tuner could tune to |
| 6:55 | · | that content live but of course not |
| 6:58 | · | through an app uh similar story here |
| 7:00 | · | unfortunately with Xbox and Windows 10 |
| 7:03 | · | and 11 if you remember the Xbox was |
| 7:06 | · | actually one of the first devices that |
| 7:07 | · | could tune encrypted cable content on |
| 7:10 | · | the HD home run Prime which was a cable |
| 7:13 | · | card device but right now it cannot do |
| 7:17 | · | atsc 3 either LG TVs along with Samsung |
| 7:21 | · | TVs are out at least in so far as |
| 7:24 | · | Gateway product usage there are no apps |
| 7:26 | · | that can run on the LG TVs that will |
| 7:29 | · | work with a Gateway product and the only |
| 7:31 | · | thing that kind of does work right now |
| 7:33 | · | is Android and if you look at the two |
| 7:36 | · | boxes that are currently out there the |
| 7:37 | · | adth box and the zapper box both of |
| 7:40 | · | those run Android in the background |
| 7:42 | · | because it's Google and Google has the |
| 7:44 | · | wide Vine encryption there uh that is |
| 7:47 | · | why we're seeing Android primarily on |
| 7:50 | · | this current crop of boxes but it's |
| 7:53 | · | still not possible to use an Android |
| 7:56 | · | device as a Gateway client |
| 8:00 | · | because there are requirements that are |
| 8:02 | · | draft or incomplete still at this time |
| 8:05 | · | and we're looking at I think at least a |
| 8:06 | · | year since they started encrypting so |
| 8:09 | · | they really had no plan for rolling this |
| 8:11 | · | out if they had one all of this stuff |
| 8:14 | · | wouldn't be in flux right now but that's |
| 8:16 | · | where things are at and I'm not very |
| 8:18 | · | optimistic that things are going to get |
| 8:20 | · | better all of this is kind of running |
| 8:23 | · | contrary to the broadcast and coding |
| 8:25 | · | rules that the a3s which is the armor |
| 8:28 | · | the broadcast Masters responsible for |
| 8:31 | · | encrypting the content uh said would be |
| 8:34 | · | followed in regards to all this stuff |
| 8:36 | · | they've got a lot of great bullets here |
| 8:37 | · | about what viewers will be able to do |
| 8:40 | · | but unfortunately none of the devices |
| 8:42 | · | that viewers have will actually work in |
| 8:44 | · | a way in which they can do these things |
| 8:47 | · | so that is where it is at unfortunately |
| 8:50 | · | zero progress on Gateway development |
| 8:54 | · | here and again I'm not optimistic that |
| 8:55 | · | we're ever going to see it work now In |
| 8:58 | · | fairness I did Reach Out to the atsc and |
| 9:00 | · | they did provide me this statement on |
| 9:02 | · | the status of all of these things they |
| 9:06 | · | said the a3s remember they're the group |
| 9:08 | · | that organizes the encryption part of |
| 9:11 | · | this standard and its member |
| 9:13 | · | broadcasters want to maximize the |
| 9:14 | · | footprint of atsc3 services and so their |
| 9:17 | · | goal is to enable playback of encoded |
| 9:19 | · | content on a range of devices including |
| 9:21 | · | Apple TV Roku Windows Xbox Samsung LG |
| 9:23 | · | and similar devices they do say that the |
| 9:26 | · | current specs in pre-released draft form |
| 9:29 | · | are expected to work on Samsung and LG |
| 9:31 | · | devices as is or with only a minor |
| 9:34 | · | modification in addition they are |
| 9:36 | · | working with an accessory manufacturer |
| 9:38 | · | to develop a prototype implementation of |
| 9:40 | · | a3s that works on Roku based devices |
| 9:43 | · | which we can expect to add to our |
| 9:45 | · | specifications as soon as we can adding |
| 9:47 | · | support for all of these platforms is a |
| 9:49 | · | high priority on our near-term road map |
| 9:52 | · | and my concern here is just that they're |
| 9:54 | · | kind of controlling the market aren't |
| 9:56 | · | they in that they're picking and |
| 9:57 | · | choosing who gets to i' run these |
| 9:59 | · | prototypes and get everything working |
| 10:01 | · | first whereas I think it would be better |
| 10:03 | · | to have the market just kind of work |
| 10:05 | · | itself out as it did on the atsc 1.0 |
| · | Broadcaster Moving 4k to Streaming Only |
| 10:08 | · | standard now zapper boox posted up |
| 10:10 | · | something interesting on their upcoming |
| 10:12 | · | feature road map in version 2.4 they've |
| 10:16 | · | got this new feature called Broadband |
| 10:19 | · | channels now get this the broadcasters |
| 10:21 | · | will be pinging out URLs for streaming |
| 10:26 | · | video and so what happens is your box |
| 10:29 | · | will pick up the URL over the air and |
| 10:32 | · | then tune to the channel over the |
| 10:34 | · | internet and what zapper boox is saying |
| 10:36 | · | here is that this is probably how |
| 10:38 | · | broadcasters will be Distributing 4K |
| 10:41 | · | content they will not be broadcasting it |
| 10:44 | · | because it uses up so much bandwidth on |
| 10:46 | · | the signal so they'll instead send you a |
| 10:48 | · | URL and your box will tune to it over |
| 10:51 | · | the internet I'm beginning to wonder if |
| 10:54 | · | we even need them to be broadcasting |
| 10:56 | · | over the air with those public Airwaves |
| 10:58 | · | any long longer might there be a better |
| 11:01 | · | use for those public Airwaves and there |
| 11:03 | · | might be if they do want to roll back |
| 11:06 | · | their use of them uh one area that I've |
| · | Could Cable Access Channels Use Unwanted Spectrum? |
| 11:09 | · | been working on here in my home state of |
| 11:11 | · | Connecticut is trying to figure out a |
| 11:13 | · | path forward for cable access channels |
| 11:16 | · | and these of course are your Public |
| 11:18 | · | Access public TV channels that have been |
| 11:20 | · | around since cable TV came around and |
| 11:23 | · | they created these channels because |
| 11:25 | · | cable companies were initially granted a |
| 11:27 | · | monopoly some still one to put wires up |
| 11:30 | · | on the poles and kind of be the only |
| 11:32 | · | game in town in exchange for that they |
| 11:34 | · | had to do some things for the community |
| 11:36 | · | one of them was giving the community |
| 11:37 | · | access to sending out their own TV |
| 11:40 | · | signals on their wire and they did that |
| 11:43 | · | through creating Cable Television |
| 11:45 | · | Studios here in my home state of |
| 11:46 | · | Connecticut there's still some |
| 11:48 | · | regulation on the books that requires |
| 11:49 | · | cable TV providers to do this the |
| 11:52 | · | problem though is that cable TV uh |
| 11:55 | · | customers are dropping the cable side of |
| 11:58 | · | their subscriptions and keeping the |
| 12:00 | · | internet and what's happened now is the |
| 12:02 | · | money that cable companies were required |
| 12:04 | · | to fund these stations with is going |
| 12:07 | · | away because when people cut the cable |
| 12:09 | · | service that requirement is cut as well |
| 12:11 | · | because the internet side of the |
| 12:13 | · | business is not regulated in the same |
| 12:15 | · | way even though it's on the same wire so |
| 12:17 | · | I have been involved uh locally here in |
| 12:19 | · | Connecticut uh trying to help a a bunch |
| 12:22 | · | of regulators and the elected officials |
| 12:24 | · | and everyone else involved find a |
| 12:26 | · | solution to this problem and you can |
| 12:28 | · | read more about it on this docket that's |
| 12:31 | · | up on the regulator's website but I |
| 12:33 | · | wonder if uh broadcasters don't need the |
| 12:35 | · | signals any longer perhaps we can find a |
| 12:38 | · | better use for them that would still |
| 12:40 | · | serve the public good by maybe giving a |
| 12:43 | · | new lease on life to local access |
| 12:45 | · | television give them the ability to |
| 12:47 | · | broadcast over the air in addition to |
| 12:49 | · | streaming and it could be a big win for |
| 12:52 | · | everyone this by the way was how I got |
| 12:54 | · | my start in media production when I was |
| 12:57 | · | 13 years old you can actually see one of |
| 12:58 | · | my my episodes from 1990 uh up on the |
| 13:01 | · | link you see on screen here I had a |
| 13:03 | · | cable access show this was the start of |
| 13:05 | · | all of it for me in fact when I I |
| 13:07 | · | started my little TV show was about |
| 13:08 | · | video games and had I stuck with that |
| 13:10 | · | topic for that long I probably would be |
| 13:12 | · | uh doing more than working out of my |
| 13:14 | · | basement right now but it's still an |
| 13:16 | · | invaluable resource I think not only for |
| 13:17 | · | kids looking to get into media |
| 13:20 | · | production and developing media literacy |
| 13:22 | · | it's also important for communities to |
| 13:24 | · | have this access and one of the things |
| 13:27 | · | that I've been noticing in the course of |
| 13:29 | · | helping to contribute to this issue in |
| 13:31 | · | my state is that the algorithms from |
| 13:35 | · | YouTube and Twitter and everybody else |
| 13:36 | · | don't seem to promote these local uh |
| 13:39 | · | content sources because they don't |
| 13:41 | · | generate a lot of traffic even though |
| 13:43 | · | there is an audience for them so this is |
| 13:45 | · | an area that I think needs some |
| 13:47 | · | attention it might be a better way to |
| 13:49 | · | make use of the public Airwaves in the |
| 13:51 | · | future if clearly broadcasters are not |
| 13:54 | · | as interested in using those signals for |
| 13:57 | · | the public benefit any longer so we've |
| · | Conclusion |
| 14:00 | · | got more to come on this but I just |
| 14:02 | · | wanted to put this out there I would |
| 14:03 | · | love to hear about what's happening with |
| 14:05 | · | cable access in your state because every |
| 14:07 | · | state is different but I would imagine |
| 14:09 | · | other uh cable access channels |
| 14:10 | · | throughout the country here in the US |
| 14:12 | · | are dealing with the same things and so |
| 14:14 | · | that's going to do it for this one uh |
| 14:16 | · | unfortunately we don't have much news |
| 14:18 | · | here because not much has happened the |
| 14:19 | · | FCC still hasn't said anything about |
| 14:22 | · | what they plan to do on encryption and |
| 14:24 | · | because this transition is not due now |
| 14:26 | · | to take place until 2027 my guess is |
| 14:29 | · | they are punting it to the next |
| 14:32 | · | Administration so I think this |
| 14:33 | · | presidential election will be |
| 14:35 | · | consequential as to what happens with |
| 14:37 | · | broadcast TV rolling forward the |
| 14:40 | · | broadcasters really believe that this |
| 14:42 | · | encryption is important for preserving |
| 14:44 | · | their business model you and I know that |
| 14:46 | · | it's actually going to do the opposite |
| 14:48 | · | to their business model because less of |
| 14:50 | · | us will want to tune in to over the air |
| 14:52 | · | TV if we can't watch and record it the |
| 14:54 | · | way we want but they are in that mode |
| 14:57 | · | here they're not budget off of it so the |
| 14:59 | · | only way they're going to change their |
| 15:01 | · | mind on this is for the regulator to |
| 15:03 | · | tell them to and so that's why I think |
| 15:06 | · | when we get into uh the next election |
| 15:08 | · | this will be an important issue for us |
| 15:10 | · | to keep track of that's going to do it |
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