Re:Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
by coretx on Sunday June 30, 2024 @02:08PM
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That's done on purpose so that they can roll out conditional access / DRM.
In order to make people pay for that, they need to be invested in hardware first ( DAB radios ) and suffer from poor quality channels....
DAB is optimized to make money, not to serve the general public.
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Re:Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
by gpvos on Sunday June 30, 2024 @05:16PM
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Source?
Re:Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
by avidiax on Monday July 01, 2024 @01:28AM
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Same thing with ATSC 3.0.
You can read the industry's claims as to why DRM is needed in broadcast (to ensure authenticity mainly), but you'll have to read between the lines that it's to make broadcast TV impossible to record, ads impossible to skip, and (probably eventually) sweet talk regulators into allowing pay-per-view or paid access "premium" channels, probably leeching off the bandwidth (and quality) of the "free-to-air" channels they are legally a required to broadcast to maintain their licenses.
https://cordcuttersnews.com/the-team-behind-nextgen-atsc-3-0...