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Is Your TV Already Old? And How To Always Find Donuts

Consumer Reports joined Into Tomorrow this week with why your TV may already be obsolete recommendations:

If you want to continue getting free TV broadcasts, you’ll either need to get a new TV or use an adapter.

That’s because a new digital broadcast standard, called ATSC 3.0, is already in the works. But you actually don’t have to start worrying about it quite yet, since we’re still about two years away from a final standard.

Why the new broadcast standard? The ATSC 1.0 standard was developed more than 20 years ago, before most people had any idea of the prominent role the Internet, streaming video, and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones would play in how we watch TV. To accommodate these, and other, shifts in TV viewing, the broadcast industry started working on a new, more modern digital transmission system that can simultaneously deliver signals to both fixed and mobile devices.

There are several advantages to ATSC 3.0 digital broadcast standard. For one, it uses TV spectrum more efficiently than the current standard, and it includes better compression. That will enable broadcasters to transmit higher-quality 4K signals with high-quality, immersive audio to those with Ultra HD TVs.

For more info on this story, visit ConsumerReports.org.

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For Into Tomorrow, James McQueen – Consumer Reports

The team discussed the apps they’ve been playing with this week:

DoughBot, FREE

One of Instagram’s biggest downsides is that you can only post one picture at a time, as opposed to Facebook, where you can post a whole album. There have been apps out for a while that fix that by allowing you to piece together several images into one. The most famous of these is PicStitch. Instagram has finally come out with their own app to do that! It’s called Layout from Instagram. This app will work seamlessly with the Instagram all to allow you to re-mix up to 9 photos into one, to post on the social media site. This app even has a “faces” tab, that will only show you photos from your phone that it find faces in. You can customize the layouts by resizing or flipping photos. Layout from Instagram is free for iOS and Android devices.

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Chris

Pushbullet, FREE

This is especially useful if you have a new Android device that you want to load up with some useful Apps. Pushbullet is a handy little & browser extension that allows you to easily share files, notifications, links and other material between your phone and your computer. Pushbullet can send you your phone’s notifications, like instant messages and calls right to your desktop, and in turn, you can also share notes, links, lists and files across all of your devices. Pushbullet has also introduced a Channels feature which sends notifications from a variety of sources like online deals, news, website newsfeeds and more.

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Written by Dave Graveline

Dave Graveline is the founder, Host & Executive Producer of "Into Tomorrow" in addition to being President of the Advanced Media Network".

Dave is also a trusted and familiar voice on many national commercials & narrations in addition to being an authority in consumer tech since 1994. He is also a former Police Officer and an FBI Certified Instructor.

Dave thrives on audience participation!

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