Sounds like nothing of value was lost
At this day and age, few people care about it. And ATSC "legacy" will continue to work so you can still watch your local news (or Days of Our Lives I guess)
has any streamer taken the challenge of making the "soaps" available from their beginning? i can imagine this would appeal to a Peggy Bundy type eating bonbons marathoning her soaps.
It will it until it doesn't. My market currently has two physical channels for ATSC 3.0, and the rest are ATSC 1.0. If there's adoption (or a mandate), I can imagine the ratio flipping. If you like you programming at low bitrates, you'll be fine as they compress everything down, but there's a lot of potential for better video on ATSC 3, if users and broadcasters switch.
Otoh, using a poorly supported, non-free audio codec makes things unusable for me.
Yeah, I mean, 2/3rds of this sounds great.
Obviously both can be done without the DRM parts (some discussion on codecs and patents is warranted though).