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Lon Seidman
Personal blog · blog.lon.tvhardwarepolitics
Lon Seidman's personal blog at blog.lon.tv covers hardware and politics. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts for coverage of over-the-air TV, including ATSC 3.0 encryption and DRM and a petition to save free TV. The comments only link or cite the posts and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tech & Commentary from Lon Seidman of Lon.TV
What Hacker News says?
"can receive" has a different meaning with encrypted ATSC 3.0 signals. My HD Homerun TV tuner happily displays ATSC 1.0 signals and also the single unencrypted ATSC 3.0 signal from PBS. The rest of them are infected with Widevine DRM and unwatchable on a network tuner. Obviously DVR functionality is disabled as well. Public airwaves carrying TV channels that can only be viewed with an Internet connection to deliver…
Comment linking /
on “TV Fool: See OTA channels you can receive”Submitted Your TV's HDMI Port Is Spying on You (Automatic Content Recognition) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionAlso note the related petition: https://blog.lon.tv/2023/06/30/lets-save-free-tv-and-stop-at...
Comment linking /2023/06/30/lets-save-free-tv-and-stop-atsc-3-0-drm-sign-my-petition/
on “The FCC wants feedback about ATSC 3.0 encryption/DRM for OTA TV”Submitted The FCC wants feedback about ATSC 3.0 encryption/DRM for OTA TV as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ADTH Nextgen TV Box Shows Us Just How Bad ATSC 3.0 Encryption Will Be as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nvidia to Kill Off Gamestream as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console as a story · 1 points
HN discussion