I DO use OTA, that’s what a Tablo does, 4 tuners on it, 1TB SSD in it to record. Able to watch on any device in my house, after receiving on an antenna. It can be controlled from devices on my WiFi or when I want I open a port and even my family in foreign countries can watch local TV here.
This is what he means when he discusses a gateway device, see transcript.
I stream on the internet also, of course that phones home, but definitely also use and want local over-the-air (OTA) television, which should not unless I want it to. I actually suspect that Tablo does somewhat phone home due to be using their “guide,” although I can block that if I want.
This new proposal will break my Tablo according to the article, and “Lon” seems accurate on that issue. I would be stuck paying more for a new device that is probably less more invasive and crippled.
And the idea that “they” will not want it to talk back to them in some way is wrong. They DO want that, and if it is not adequately opposed, they will get it.
OTA should be preserved, not be encrypted, and certainly should never phone home without permission.
Read the transcript, it’s not as simple as you keep saying, and with the decisions not being frozen yet, you know as well as I do that they are easily capable of effing it up in ways that violate yet more of our freedoms.
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I suspect it will be years before stations convert to 3.0. Start saving.