Evoca promises cord-cutters an alternative to dependence on the internet
For most of us, cord-cutting means dropping cable or satellite TV service and streaming TV over the internet, instead. That can be problematic if you live in an area where you can’t get high-speed broadband. Boise, Idaho-based Evoca is working on an alternative solution based on the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard, aka Next Gen TV.
As we reported in 2020, ATSC 3.0 make it possible to broadcast TV content in 4K Ultra HD resolution, complete with HDR, wide color gamut, and high framerate support. The new standard can also carry more channels and video on demand (VoD) because it uses a new compression algorithm, and it has an Internet Protocol (IP) backbone that merges broadcast TV with content from the internet.