<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 11, 2024, at 9:55 AM, Paul Harrison <mythtv@mythqml.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<div><p>An interesting article for anyone in the UK about the future of
Freeview :-<br>
<a href="https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/timeline-of-changes-to-freeview-and-satellite-tv/" class="postlink">https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/timeline-of-c ...
ellite-tv/</a><br>
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Also some early information about Freely the service starting
later this year that is supposed to replace Freeview and Freesat
:-<br>
<a href="https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/all-in-one-tv-how-freeview-replacement-freely-will-work/" class="postlink">https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/all-in-one-tv ...
will-work/</a><br>
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The confusing thing for me is this is obviously about the future
of linear TV but it's been hard not to notice all the TV stations
are pushing their own on demand services like crazy at the moment
"Watch live tonight at 9 or any time for free on our on demand
service". So what do they really want us to use Freely or their OD
services? It would be nice if Freely could support both linear and
OD TV in an all in one convenient app so we don't have to install
and subscribe to many different services for OD but I suspect
that's unlikely to happen <img class="smilies" src="https://forum.mythtv.org/images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad" width="15" height="17"></p></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>In the US similar is happening. People are just not watching OTA as well as Cable TV. The twitter/X user @TVGrimReaper has been documenting the decline of OTA and Cable, as well as no the minor streaming platforms such as Paramount, WBDs (whatever it is named today.) and the rest of them. </div><div><br></div><div>I’m also concerned that the ATSC 3 migration here in the US will also drag it down farther as will be wrapped in DRM. When ATSC 1.0 goes away, I will probably have to drop out of MythTV usage due to the drm requirements for ATSC 3.</div><div><br></div><div>Just rambling thoughts here.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards!</div><div><br></div><br></body></html>