I will buy a plex pass when ATSC3.0 is available. Just saying ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
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ATSC 3.0 channels work perfectly, and at a much higher quality with other apps though.
With the exception of HDHomerun’s awful gui and Plex’s bugs, Channels DVR might be the only candidate. Everyone from manufacturers to app developers are playing whack a mole with 3.0’s on going changes.
This is debatable. Your opinion of something that works for you doesn’t equate to someone else’s experience, and that depends on multiple variables such as tuner, application, antenna placement and direction, altitude, signal strength. Different things alter one’s experience over your own. We don’t exactly have feature parity between all Plex clients either.
In any event, Plex’s failure to provide any audio on these channels is unacceptable, this long since inception
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Could Plex not solve this temporarily by utilizing 2 channels simultaneously? Open a SD channel for audio capture, and a separate channel to record and merge the ATSC 3.0 video.
Guessing there’s probably desync issues, but just throwing ideas.
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That seems to depend on the area. My local ATSC 1.0 stations still beat out the quality of the ATSC 3.0 ones, by a mile. The HEVC compression is poor, especially for live stuff with a lot of movement, like sports. All kinds of “encoding halos” around moving objects like players. These are based on viewing the full-quality transport streams, so it’s not a re-encode situation. Mostly static stuff like news anchors speaking, and dramatic shows, are just fine.
It’s honestly a little frustrating. I’m hoping this gets better as it gets further into what is essentially the ongoing ATSC 3.0 beta process.
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No, this isn’t right.
Keep in mind the point of DRM is to limit the usage rights of the programming. The rights are a management issue for the display device/recording platform. The tuner is only capturing the source and sending the data along. Its job isn’t to decode, because then it’s essentially stripping the DRM and making the content unprotected.
I had this same conversation with Corel about their WinDVD player product and me not being able to play some blu-ray discs on my PC. They tried to claim the decryption keys are part of my BD-R drive hardware and I needed to contact the manufacturer. No – the drive’s job is to read pits and lands on the disc and convert that to 1’s and 0’s, and send that stream to the PC. The playback software has to do the decoding and sent the image/audio to an approved display.
And after I had that discussion with them, Corel sent me some updates to apply to my WinDVD install (one of them literally named “keypack”), and those BD discs were suddenly playable, without me ever contacting the OEM for my drive.
Living in the past (note: get your Ipod’s while they last)
Better explained here:
https://www.aftvnews.com/new-atsc-3-0-drm-requirements-force-tablo-to-dely-the-release-of-its-first-atsc-3-0-ota-dvr/
and previously by @d_eight6
Fantastic. According to that article anyone that has already purchased a ATSC 3.0 tuner is SOL.
I’m glad I have waited.
Um, did you actually watch the video? A simple software update will be required to add encryption support.
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Did you read the article? “Tablo cannot simply manufacture the DVR now and add the necessary keys after the fact, and they certainly can’t ship the devices without DRM support and add it later through a software update.”
DRM was in the earliest drafts of ATSC 3.0 and most (If Not All) the other tuner manufacturers that have already shipped ATSC 3.0 tuners have worked with the www.atsc.org to ensure that their hardware could handle DRM. Somehow Tablo didn’t see (or ignored or whatever) the possibility that this could happen and is now back peddling to add this (before any unit’s ship).
Incorrect!
So, no! there is no need to wait for one company to get this right, as others already have (except for Tablo, plex and probably a few others)
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Interesting. I thought I had read that DRM was a recent addition to the specification. I must have dreamed that.
Any update on when this will be implemented?
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I would love to get an update too
Looking for an update on when Plex will support ATSC 3.0 audio, too.
Going on 2 years for this thread, and a year since I bought my atsc3.0 tuner. Sure would be nice to get my reception better! I have noticed a huge difference in reception because of multi-path crosstalk filtering. So much improvement that to watch TV I pull up the 3.0 channel on the roku (102.1) and the 1.0 channel on my phone (2.1) for audio. Would be nice if they could just get this codec to work.
Following up on this and is being looked into
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Hows that going?
This was posted MORE than eight(8) months ago now…
This made it seam like it was a (nearly) done deal.
It’s obvious to me that PLEX/plex? is the problem as so many others (your competitors) and others are supporting this already.
any updates?
