Imagine if they broke viewing for all of the countless cheap (and e-waste) phones, tablets, low end IOT devices, “smart TVs”, and so on because they place a requirement that the device cannot meet. Those users will not throw away their hardware - they’ll migrate to the first available alternative way to watch content.
Not-so-fun fact, this is exactly what ATSC 3 is trying to do for OTA broadcast TV.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
ATSC 3 ?
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 6 hours ago
New broadcast standard which if implemented as intended, will use Widevine DRM to encrypt/decrypt streams, and require a web connection to view previously free OTA broadcasts, also that DRM will limit what you can do with it, as Rossmann puts it early on in his ‘this is why I show these things in my vids’ vid. …gravitywell.xyz/…/61332f1b-9a15-46b6-8a97-c4e378…
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I would be alarmed, if there was still anything worth watching on TV.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Damn. Hopefully some capture mechanism will exist so piracy sites can still reupload a backup.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
HDMI capture will always work.