I just finished the serverpartdeals 15x 22TB video in the 45Drives chassis, and the format shifting “sit down and watch a recording as if you were watching a personal recording from the 90s” thing now has an active threat: ATSC 3.0.
See, ATSC 3.0’s pilot stations all switched to encrypted by default. So this means the consortium for “NextGen TV” is now “certifying” devices to abide by DRM schemes. And no, you are unable to decrypt an entire broadcast with a single decryption key as the key ROTATES. This means even if you recorded it directly and had decryption keys, you cannot use a singular one for continuous playback.
ClearQAM will be the ONLY method to acquire broadcasts unencrypted if the shenanigans are allowed to continue. I’ve written Louis Rossmann twice about this and AFAIK he is not aware of this issue.
The Broadcast Flag was the original attempt to prevent recording of free over the air content, and that failed. This time though, there seems to be far more support that it could actually end up in a situation where you have to break the DMCA to record FREE OVER THE AIR AIRWAVES.
Edit: I have now made a wiki entry on the Rossmann Group Wiki about this that I hope others can contribute to: ATSC 3.0 - Consumer_Action_Taskforce