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Why is the IPTV scene such a toxic shit hole? (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 week ago by Yppm@lemy.lol to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I know it's probably because there's money to be made.

I just wish there was a good place to discuss IPTV providers that wasn't full of sketchy resellers over promising and under delivering. You'd think they could at least sort out their EPGs as most I have used are like 80% complete at best.

Not asking for provider recommendations, not sure if that's allowed here. Just wondering if y'all know of a place where that shit can be discussed in a neutral and honest environment?

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[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 days ago

If you don't need to watch Jeopardy live it is pretty readily available via torrents. Probably in better quality and without ads.

Sports are much harder to find. There are trackers but they are much harder to get into and I can't attest to the completeness (I'm not really into sports) and watching it live is probably more relevant.

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 days ago

Why not an aerial for Jeopardy? It's usually on local broadcast, so you could plumb together a DVR setup if you want it within a unified experience.

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago

Lots of TV stations in the US are moving to the new broadcast standard, ATSC 3.0, encrypting the channel, and stopping their ATSC 1.0 broadcasts. This makes an antenna useless. And the only digital boxes that are allowed are ones that have to be plugged into the TV directly with HDMI. This means you'd have to have an antenna and expensive converter box for EACH TV.

Basically, broadcast TV is an unreliable mess now.

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago

ATSC 3.0 is usable. I have a HDHomerun sitting on my LAN with a couple 3.0 tuners.

The big problem is:

the 3.0 broadcasts are still mostly tests, so you get mostly a respin of a 1.0 channel
the audio is AC-4 and a lot of software doesn't support it. There was stuff for Windows but when I looked, the usual suspects (VLC, mpv) on Linux didn't support it

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 0 points 5 days ago

It's usable until your local stations decide to encrypt. Then HDHomerun will not work.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 5 days ago

The decryption keys are on the HDHR itself... The HDHR calls home every few hours to pick up new keys.

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

Except that's not the experience everyone has. HDHR isn't getting keys, because the networks don't allow it for the HDHR devices.

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 5 days ago

HDHR isn’t getting keys

And yet mine does so somehow I'm special? I can open the streams just fine. No issues. In the other thread, I even linked you a project that does the ac4 transcoding. You think they're also full of shit and that HDHR doesn't work with ATSC 3.0?

The Siliconlabs guys even advertise the product as ATSC3.0 compatible... Are they full of shit too?