Completely and totally false. Not what those videos portrayed at all. He's been one of the leading voices sounding the alarm of ATSC 3.0 and DRM encryption.
You're the same person I believe who argued over and over again that BluRay and DVD discs were the same on another thread.
“Completely and totally false. Not what those videos portrayed at all.”
Those were of access using no DRM verification. Since then those external tuners have been updated and will operate on encrypted ATSC 3.0 broadcasts.
“A New ATSC 3.0 Nextgen TV Tuner With DRM Support is Coming That Won’t Need Internet to Work”
” He’s been one of the leading voices sounding the alarm of ATSC 3.0 and DRM encryption.”
And in your first linked video reconfirmed that internet was not required.
I guess you didn’t bother to watch it.
None of this should be noticeable if you have a smart TV with an ATSC 3.0 tuner, as it should already have the necessary keys to decrypt these locked-down channels. It also doesn’t affect channels that use the current ATSC 1.0 standard, which broadcasters are required to support for at least another four years.
But if you were an early adopter of external ATSC 3.0 tuners such as the HDHomeRun Flex 4K or Bitrouter ZapperBox, you won’t be able to watch any encrypted channels. These devices launched without DRM support before broadcasters started encrypting their channels, and while they plan to support DRM in the near future, the complications of doing so has led to numerous delays.
None of this should be noticeable if you have a smart TV with an ATSC 3.0 tuner, as it should already have the necessary keys to decrypt these locked-down channels. It also doesn’t affect channels that use the current ATSC 1.0 standard, which broadcasters are required to support for at least another four years.
But if you were an early adopter of external ATSC 3.0 tuners such as the HDHomeRun Flex 4K or Bitrouter ZapperBox, you won’t be able to watch any encrypted channels. These devices launched without DRM support before broadcasters started encrypting their channels, and while they plan to support DRM in the near future, the complications of doing so has led to numerous delays.
https://www.techhive.com/article/2198439/why-you-might-finally-want-atsc-3-0-in-2024.html
(The industry’s encoding rules do prohibit restrictions on recordings, but only for content that is simulcast in ATSC 1.0.)