I'm confused. Are you telling me this was featured on the news in Houston? Putting it right up there with the switch to color tv programming as the next frontier! This infomercial certainly doesn't compromise your integrity as a news program! Just out of curiosity, by chance are any of your upper management or owners invested in Nextgen TV? Since this takes a special purchase surely I can bank on this revolutionary new tech to not be just one giant advertisement right? Oh, well at least getting a new tv with this tech built in won't collect my personal data so you can sell it? Perfect! Let me get my wallet!
Not necessarily. You could get a converter box/DVR that supports ATSC 3.0 and either connects to your home network (Ethernet or WiFi) or plugs into your TV via HDMI. The cheapest option currently is the $200 HDHomerun Flex 4K, but right now it's still very early days and will take months or even a couple years for more products to become available, for more competition. The benefit of the ones that plug into your home network is that they can be a DVR for your whole home (TV, computer, tablet, phone, etc) and perhaps even let you access it remotely over the Internet.
After rescan my new Sony Tv ... I noted that channel 2 will take around 8_10s (spinning circle) before it display compared with the TV without Nextgen option... Is it normal? Kind of wear... (I use outdoor antenna)anyone have same issues? Thanks
DO NOT get roped into buying this or any other "new and improved" TV. It doesn't matter what TV you have if the content does not change. My 65 inch HD TV does me NO GOOD. First of all, many of the movies these days are filmed with sepia tone, blue or other filters so the fact that my TV can show sooooooooooo many colors does me no good at all. Secondly, the 65 inches I paid for was a WASTE OF MONEY when most of the movies now show with the black areas along the top and bottom of a video. This feature known as letterboxing can often take up nearly two thirds of the screen real estate and sometimes even more. Sometimes, it's so frustrating that I just turn to something else even if the movie is supposed to be awesome. It is just unbearable to try and watch it. So, why would I pay thousands of dollars more for a "bigger and better" TV when I am going to get the same horrible experience when I try to watch it? No thanks.
Here are the caveats. 1. everything is just rolling out and under development so of course not everything that is promised to come with NextGen TV is available yet and if I am not mistaking that after a station first goes ATSC 3.0 that they are to simulcast the ATSC 1.0 Signal with the ATSC 3.0 Signal for like 5 years or something like that and there is no mandate on this whole thing yet so yes I'd say stick with what you have for now. 2. a lot of the nextgentv tuners and receivers and adapters, etc. are under construction or development for now and are not available yet. This whole thing is going to take I would say like around a half a decade to even start rolling out and this is just my estimation based on what I am seeing so take it with a grain of salt but again I say stick with what you have for now and keep a watch out on it. Give like I would say the rest of this decade for everything to start unfolding at best.
Sounds like they are trying to figure out how they can charge you for antenna tv. Maybe not now, But it is coming....
Absolutely.
I'm confused. Are you telling me this was featured on the news in Houston? Putting it right up there with the switch to color tv programming as the next frontier! This infomercial certainly doesn't compromise your integrity as a news program!
Just out of curiosity, by chance are any of your upper management or owners invested in Nextgen TV? Since this takes a special purchase surely I can bank on this revolutionary new tech to not be just one giant advertisement right? Oh, well at least getting a new tv with this tech built in won't collect my personal data so you can sell it? Perfect! Let me get my wallet!
Is this ATSC-3?
I will need a new TV.
Not necessarily. You could get a converter box/DVR that supports ATSC 3.0 and either connects to your home network (Ethernet or WiFi) or plugs into your TV via HDMI. The cheapest option currently is the $200 HDHomerun Flex 4K, but right now it's still very early days and will take months or even a couple years for more products to become available, for more competition.
The benefit of the ones that plug into your home network is that they can be a DVR for your whole home (TV, computer, tablet, phone, etc) and perhaps even let you access it remotely over the Internet.
Great to watch TV on RV.
iam against that cell phone have atcs 3.0
After rescan my new Sony Tv ... I noted that channel 2 will take around 8_10s (spinning circle) before it display compared with the TV without Nextgen option... Is it normal? Kind of wear... (I use outdoor antenna)anyone have same issues? Thanks
The go to the show when next-gen TV or be playing in local and state of Kentucky please get back to me
DO NOT get roped into buying this or any other "new and improved" TV. It doesn't matter what TV you have if the content does not change. My 65 inch HD TV does me NO GOOD. First of all, many of the movies these days are filmed with sepia tone, blue or other filters so the fact that my TV can show sooooooooooo many colors does me no good at all. Secondly, the 65 inches I paid for was a WASTE OF MONEY when most of the movies now show with the black areas along the top and bottom of a video. This feature known as letterboxing can often take up nearly two thirds of the screen real estate and sometimes even more. Sometimes, it's so frustrating that I just turn to something else even if the movie is supposed to be awesome. It is just unbearable to try and watch it. So, why would I pay thousands of dollars more for a "bigger and better" TV when I am going to get the same horrible experience when I try to watch it? No thanks.
Here are the caveats.
1. everything is just rolling out and under development so of course not everything that is promised to come with NextGen TV is available yet and if I am not mistaking that after a station first goes ATSC 3.0 that they are to simulcast the ATSC 1.0 Signal with the ATSC 3.0 Signal for like 5 years or something like that and there is no mandate on this whole thing yet so yes I'd say stick with what you have for now.
2. a lot of the nextgentv tuners and receivers and adapters, etc. are under construction or development for now and are not available yet.
This whole thing is going to take I would say like around a half a decade to even start rolling out and this is just my estimation based on what I am seeing so take it with a grain of salt but again I say stick with what you have for now and keep a watch out on it. Give like I would say the rest of this decade for everything to start unfolding at best.
Need OTA sub transmitters around the populations.
A decade is much too long a new tech will be out by then
It took until 2009 for all of us to convert from NTSC to ATSC 1.0, a TV standard which was first developed in 1990s...
Most wireless technologies only get upgraded every 10 years
For example
4G - 2010
5G - 2020
Same goes with Wifi and ATSC TV