“Talking about emergency broadcast system working in wartime.”
This will improve the OTA EBS.
“I know that analog TV was totally independent of channel re-alignment crap.”
Digital TV (ATSC 1.0) allowed multiple broadcasts on one channel thus freeing up higher frequencies for other uses like cellphones. To come will be channels that will support independents.
Almost everything digital today uses code. Many codes require authentication credentials and many can expire. Look at ssl and all the enccryption stuff. Certificates expire.
What I’m saying is do this digital tools all come with expiration dates. Will an AS?? tuner stop working on a certain date if not ungraded?
The analog world was beautiful. Never changed from the 60s until 2009.