Why ATSC 3.0 in smartphones is likely to be a non-starter in India
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The Indian government is facing strong resistance from device makers regarding its plan to mandate the addition of ATSC 3.0 technology, also known as NexGen TV, which allows smartphones to receive  | Analyst Neil Shah with Counterpoint said, “In the age of OTT, video on demand and live streaming over the internet, this is a step back when it comes to broadcasting content to mobile."
  • Banzai51@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    ATSC 3.0 is just a scheme to turn free, over the air TV into another cable. Ever increasing prices.

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
    5·
    8 months ago

    live broadcasts of video without requiring wireless networks.

    Do the writers know what a broadcast is and what wireless means?

    • infinull@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      I mean… it’s not a network technically. it’s a broadcast station (though the stations themselves are networks)

      • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
        1·
        8 months ago

        It still requires being in range of a (network of) wireless transmitter(s). I’d have written ‘without mobile networks’ or ‘cellular networks’ or ‘data connection’ or ‘IP networks’ as it’s a broadcast and not a two-way communication.

        Sure, it’s nitpicking and they’re technically correct but it’s also imprecise wording. It’s still wireless transmissions and not magic.

    • tal@lemmy.today
      5·
      8 months ago

      I haven’t been following the issue, but:

      The government believes mandating ATSC 3.0 in smartphones will help bring down network congestion in wireless networks.

      So, over-the-air television uses broadcasting. You broadcast one signal, everyone in the area can receive it. You can have one viewer or a million viewers and it takes the same amount of bandwidth.

      But if everyone is streaming video unicast, the way they typically would over the Internet from somewhere like YouTube – which has the benefit of letting people watch whatever they want, whenever they want, independent of anyone else, you can’t do that; you can’t have a million viewers in a cell, or anything approaching that, because bandwidth consumption scales linearly with the number of viewers.

      I know that the US emergency alert system uses broadcasting over the cell network, so there has to be at least limited support for broadcasting in the cell network, though. I dunno if cell providers use it for pushing out system updates to phones, but if they don’t, I suspect that they should.

      googles

      https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2022/12/multicast-broadcast-group-communication

      5G multicast-broadcast for group communication: Why it matters and how it works

      Through 5G NR multicast-broadcast functionality, 5G networks can now be equipped to support efficient, reliable and scalable group communication services. Below, we explore the 3GPP technologies bringing high-performance connectivity to mission critical use cases.

      It sounds like there is some kind of way to do broadcast/multicast within 5G, though.