ATSC TV and Electronic Program Guide (EPG)

Over the Air (OTA) Electronic Program Guides (EPG) are not included on all TV’s and have not been ever since someone found they can profit by forcing you to use internet based guides where private info about what you are looking to watch and likely what you are watching can be made a commodity.

The OTA EPG is included in the ATSC signal data by every broadcast station. The fact that manufactures are being subsidized to not include this is a questionable act. Since it costs more to do a internet based system, where someone can profit from user info. Just like tracking your actions on the web.

Do your homework, because if it does not say it has a ‘OTA’ EPG, it does not. You will need a internet connection to the device to get it. There is no other way.
It is true many ATSC converter boxes have OTA EPG’s and they are cheap. Many even offer DVR capability. with the addition of external storage. For many that got ripped off getting a TV without OTA EPG, it perhaps is the best option.

Until enough people demand a change, it will continue. There is profit in this for someone.

I am just wondering how they will manipulate the new ATSC3 protocol. They will because they can. Nobody is stopping them.

The Truth about Social Security Fraud

I don’t think I can add words to this as he said it best…

 

One should ask, Where are the prosecutions for FRAUD ?

The Trump Admin in 6 weeks

While I have picked at many of these topics, and was about to write something to put this all in a comprehensive view.

But i found someone who had done this just before I took to typing and likely did a better job than I would have done.

How do you TRUST a nation that turns on a dime ? Meet the new leaders of the FREE WORLD.

For 3/4 of a century, most of the world and more importantly our largest assets of friendly trading nations have grown and prospered because they not only knew that they could trust the US for, how far and how deep as well as the US to them.

While Trump may in the end, even if he does not keep tariffs on the slate for our closest trading partners, has damaged this relationship permanently.

As you will also see in the business world, they like reliability and steadfast positions makeing the relationship predictable.

Unpredictability makes investment decisions slow or halt, which will eventually show itself in the US economy, not that you can’t see signs of it more immediately.

This whole mess mow has a divestment in some US defense contractors in favor of European defense contractors. And that will eventually mean less control of what happens with weapons and who develops the better systems in need.

Need I remind anyone that just 6 years ago, Trump himself negotiated a trade deal with Canada and Mexico, or should I say he tore up the old NAFTA for a new MCA.

And now it is he himself, out of the blue is breaking it.

That is just how Putin makes peace deals. So can you even trust his written deal ? And you can clearly see that 18 of the most influential nations of the world do not trust Putin’s peace deals.

They have only been designed to stop a previous bad plan as they regroup to do it better latter.

Know that you will never, ever regain the level of trust the US had in the world, not that a good face will not be painted on future progress.

But it is perhaps a good thing for Europe as they quickly realize how much they have relaxed and became overly dependent on the US. But it does come with consequences for the US economy.

 

Really, you should look at this very close. Europe now can not rely on US nuclear defense so much so and so quickly they are going to build their own. So much for limiting the number of nations that have nuclear capability. There are so many far reaching, not clearly visible implications to what has happened in the past weeks, some of which many of us can’t directly see. We will see it when it happens I guess. All of the staples that kept the world together as a complex working part are now in question.

Europe is definitely better off in the end if they can fill the potential void quickly enough. And the US’s role in the world is diminished as you might expect.

I will go so far as to make this bold statement…

Meet the NEW leaders of the FREE WORLD

The new leaders of the FREE WORLD

What is the deal with USPS merger into the Commerce Department all about ?

Why merge USPS with the US Department of Commerce ?

To save money ? It still takes the same amount of people to run it. You could just shave the workforce and take a hit with every late or mis-delivered package.

What is it you are eliminating to save money ? The guy running it !

You are not going to like this, but to put it in one sentence….

It is about control. And the do as I say cabinet.

You will understand this more the closer we get to the next elections.

Watch as some states restrict when a post office delivered ballot is allowed to be counted.

All about those mail-in ballots and a legal way to not count votes in areas that do not benefit you.

NATO, Ukraine, Minerals Deal and the security of Europe

Observations of late….

Whenever Russia feels things are not going it’s way, it lashes out at Europe and the west in general.
So, keep an eye on these reactions. Because they are not there, it means they are content with current events. No sabre rattling.

The other is that 47 recently tried to quell the friction in questioning if the US would come to EU defense if needed within accordance of article 5 NATO.

I am not sure the rest of NATO should relax any, for 47 changes his tune on a dime. While this is the only and first support gesture he has even made toward NATO countries, he has spent the last almost 40 years in the reverse direction without good explanation  (since 1987). Why should anyone believe he had a change of heart with one statement.

It’s not like he is saying why he was wrong or misguided for 40 years.

Europe should play all of this as if the US will not be there for them or Ukraine until something else is clearly evident in deeds.

The mineral deal is just a mineral deal with the US. No mention of security provided by the US thus far. And now the US can not be a honest broker for peace for it has a vested interest and benefits but Europe will need to do the dirty work of protecting UA for those minerals to be available to the US. US profits if the EU does the work ?

I believe 47’s thinking may head towards supplying Ukraine with a large loan that can be repaid by minerals at best. That we will have to see to believe. Something will likely be unveiled today.

Just observations. No ‘wishing’ included.