Free tv
We went to the Hershey show this past weekend and stopped at a vendor claiming to be able to provide free tv (no cable, no satellite). Of course it was streaming via the internet. They had a box sim...
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bwanshoom wrote:Exactly... They just haven't been caught yet. There was another company recently shut down called AEREO that was providing OTA streaming in certain markets for fee, but were not paying retrans fees to the broadcasters as well as violating copyrights. They were high profile (Barry Diller was involved), easy to find, and when the broadcasters filed on them the courts ruled shut them down. These guys are flying under the radar and its just a matter of time before they're done as well.
There is no free stream or broadcast available of every NFL football game. There are complicated rules on which games are available over the air in certain markets and out of town games are only available via the Sunday Ticket package which is an exclusive offering of DirectTv and is most certainly *not* free.
The HEVC people are selling you a bill of goods regarding the availability of free content via the Internet, at least legal content.
