Posted on 02/05/2017 8:59:52 AM PST by Chickensoup
....if you go OTA just for the SB... YOU GET BETTER THAN HD...got an old rabbit ears type antenna with the digital ring?...wallymart has them
Got an antenna now need to get the cable off the TV to replace with the antenna.
Some TVs have two antenna inputs, so you may not even have to remove the current cable.
Good luck man.
you will probably have to do a channel scan that might take a while then find out what the local Fox Chanel number is .
Enjoy the game on that HUGE TV.
GO PATS!!!
I installed the antenna! It works! I have great picture.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I bought an amplified indoor HDTV antenna by Antennas Direct.
ROKU, then there are a few apps which will carry it in full HD, takes all of 10 minutes to set up. BTW, ROKU boxes are approved by TWC/Spectrum as an alternative for their digital boxes.
Only one input.
I wonder if there is any such thing as a splitter, then I could have both antenna and cable with perhaps a flip of the switch? I may get a more permanent antenna.
Roku is something that I buy?
Where? Does it connect to the tv?
where?
I have HDMI ports.
Freepers!
Greatest husbands a woman ever had!!
Thanks for your input, very informative.
Good, now buy a Roku stick, Order Playstation Vue and CUT THE CORD!
Keep in mind for later: You can have both the cable (through an HDMI cord off a cable box) and an antenna connected at the same time. Your TV remote will have control settings that will let you switch without any re-connections etc.
This is for later, enjoy the game.
People don’t watch the analog radio waves when they watch digital TV programming received via radio transmission. They watch images comprised from digital data.
Signals are converted to digital before being viewed. This is why older, analog TV’s had static and grainy images when reception was poor. Modern TV images have blockiness or go completely black when the signal fails.
Okay. Nobody needs an antenna anymore. An overly simplified view. But you are welcomed to it.
Yes. You buy it, tons of free and paid content on it, plugs directly into your HDMI, few different versions. Here us a link to learn more: https://www.roku.com/index
A/B switch lets you go back and forth between cable and off-air channels - that’ll get you into the TV through the coax antenna connector - you’ll probably still have to switch between off-air and cable inputs at the input selection (probably in menu) in the TV itself.......
Thank you all for the help.
The antenna worked well and the get together was great!
What a game!
“Nobody needs an antenna anymore.”
No. Obviously you are right about antenna’s and electromagnetic waves.
The “analogue is dead” statement has to do with the image rather than the means of transmission.
But technically you are correct. If someone is using an antenna, then analogue is not completely dead.
The phrase simply means that audio and video are now presented digitally almost all of the time.
But perhaps your point was merely academic.
Of course it is the final image conversion, but the poster also coupled the analog is dead comment with specific mention of antennas. I am very familiar with the new TV standard, but my OTA interface is still an antenna. In the end, all this really doesn't matter. I was just wasting my time I guess because I've spent all my life working with antennas (so, it does end up being an academic point). :0) Thanks.
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