When SiliconDust announced the Quatro 4K, its Twitter mentions were quickly filled with customers wondering what became of the HDHomeRun Prime 6, which the company announced back in 2019. (Instead, it offers its own framework for using web technologies.) Roku, meanwhile, doesn’t support any kind of browser-like functionality at all. That content comes through a combination of HTML and Javascript-a webpage, essentially-provided by the station, but Apple doesn’t allow HTML in tvOS apps. Read closely the Quatro 4K Kickstarter page, and you’ll notice a small caveat: “Some popular client platforms such as Roku and Apple TV are not able to support all ATSC 3.0 features.”Īsked for more specifics, Kelsey said neither platform supports ATSC 3.0’s interactive features, such as the ability to watch broadcast content on-demand. The makers of Channels DVR are hoping to support the Quatro 4K and ATSC 3.0 channels. “Our DVR shouldn’t be perfect for everyone.” Fancy Bits “If people like another app better, then awesome, we want to support that,” Kelsey said. While Kelsey said the modulators required by ATSC 3.0 are more complex and expensive, cost savings comes from the fact that SiliconDust is mass-producing hardware, which no other external tuner vendors are doing yet. That’s surprising given that commercial tuners can cost up to $1,000, and that the existing Connect Quatro tuner sells for $150. Kelsey said the Quatro 4K is profitable at its $200 Kickstarter price, and he doesn’t expect that price to rise in September, when SiliconDust plans to launch the tuner more broadly. “We figured the only way to help the situation was to come out with product availability.” Getting the price down “There’s obviously a pretty big adoption chicken-and-egg problem,” Kelsey said. At least for now, SiliconDust sees the Quatro 4K as mainly for engineers and other people in the industry, along with some early adopters. While lots of companies are developing software and middleware for ATSC 3.0, the current hardware for receiving the new standard is cost prohibitive. Kelsey said the Quatro 4K came from a desire to move broadcast TV forward.
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