colin

on time shifting and mobile devices: using a tv tuner card isn’t a thing, but getting a cheap box that you plug into your antenna and an ethernet cable accomplishes basically the same thing. there’s also a ton of options for picking up that stream from outside your house (plex has it as a built-in, but there’s plenty of other options). i have a setup like this and i love it.

There seems to be an implication of having two 720p tiers that a lot of people only watch stuff on their phones (so being capped at 720p doesn't matter nearly as much). I would love to see their metrics on that since I almost never watch anything on my phone that's more substantial than a 2min Youtube video..

fwiw, here on Normal Island basically all the terrestrial tv stations have their own streaming services anyway. i mean they're all so bad (except iplayer) that i have before now waited for a show to come on netflix before watching it, but they do exist, and the difference will go way down if netflix also has ads

watching on a mobile device: this is something that's only not possible with terrestrial TV

I once used https://tvheadend.org/ with a TV tuner, an old thinkpad and a (very) crappy VDSL connection to build my own private terrestrial TV streaming service! It's doable but as usual, requires hands-on system administration experience.

Only a matter of time before we get infomercials

i only learned linux many moons ago because i was obsessed with getting MythTV to work.

speaking of terrestrial tv on mobile, atsc 3.0 might actually be good enough to push that again. fun times.