Comcast starting to Encrypt its free OTA stations to ATSC 3.0

Tuesday morning, many people are waking up to find that many Comcast Over The Air TV Stations such as Hearst ABC WCVB in Boston and Comcast’s NBC 10 in Boston are no longer available via an Over The Air Antenna. This was spotted by Matthew Mello this morning on Twitter.

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One of the new features of ATSC 3.0 is the ability for TV stations to encrypt their single to force cord cutters to get a special add-on device too. see the station(s).  This is just another way for the cable companies to force cord cutters to still use their services.

For more information about this, watch the below video from YouTuber The Antenna Man.

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