[UkrainianJew]

Because while you won't need an external unit for the tuner anymore, you would still need one for the battery.

[nl]

This isn't true.

Smartwatches have had full HD h.264 and 720p h.265 hardware decode since at least 2014.

https://www.slideshare.net/jjwu6266/qualcomm-snapdragon-400b...

[UkrainianJew]

They do, but how many viewing hours do you get from a single battery charge?

[nl]

The decoding is probably in the same order of magnitude as listening to music from your watch.

The screen brightness is the limiting factor. Based on always-on displays on the Apple Watch you are probably looking at 8 hours or so?

So decoding with the screen on might be 5 hours?

[kalleboo]

The always-on display drops power usage by being quite dim and reducing the update frequency to 1 Hz. 24-60 Hz video will draw way more power

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Why would it need more battery than any smartwatch?

[ronsor]

Decoding video is a power intensive operation. DTV broadcasts use modern codecs like H.264, H.265, and MPEG-2.

[fomine3]

Display also drains battery when playing a video. Recent displays for smart watch have low power mode when the content is not changed.

[csdvrx]

With proper hardware decoding it should be less power intensive than using aarch64.