MississippiMan, aka Jerry Hatchett
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Posted on 04/22/2013 10:18:21 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Presumably, this is for people who can't pick up a decent signal with an antenna in their house/apartment.
Why Detroit?
The incredible shrinking city seems like an unnatural choice. Lowering demographics and shrink population means a shrinking customer base.
“What is wrong with Americans? I have a ~$30 dongle with an antenna connection that provides clear reception for local channels; anywhere in the US/Canooggia/MayHeeKo.”
The best I have been able to find for a USB connecting digital TV Tuner (with portable antenna included) for a Windows PC runs about $70. What device/brand are you using.
Of course the one difference may be that the Aero subscription might provide access to broadcast channels beyond what your home-based antenna can pick up.
Tiger Direct. Can’t recall the MFR here at work.
My SIL converted the drivers for Linux about 2 year ago...runs like a champ.
Or other rooms, obviously. I've had as many as three levels of splitters, although you generally need to add an amp to keep up signal strength with that degree of distribution.
I guess I don’t get it.
I pick up 30+ channels with my indoor antenna. If I wanted to watch them on the go, I would plug in my Sling Box, but after awhile, I realized that I wasn’t that interested. When I traveled overseas it was great to watch the local news but now I can get most of that stuff directly from the internet.
Why would the cable companies go ala cart over this? Most people could pick up the locals with rabbit ears if they wanted to and they could watch it for free on mobile devices with a one time purchase of a Sling Box. The big fight is about the locals loosing their monopoly, can’t have somebody on the west coast getting an New York feed and watching blacked out games or games only provided on cable channels locally.
The Sling Box is cloud TV that has been around for a decade. The cable companies had a collective cow when it came out but it did not end up changing the industry.
Cable companies don’t want to go ala cart, it would cut into revinue. Media producers don’t want ala cart because they make a fortune bundling channels. If the media producers provided their programming ala cart, they couldn’t force the cable companies to buy low volume channels and the cable companies don’t want to force unbundling because there would be nothing preventing the media producers from providing their product directly to the consumer. Although they both claim the other is taking advantage of them, they are in a codependent relationship.
In the mean time, neither wants you buying your channels ala cart.
That’s right. It’s exploiting a loophole in the so-called “piracy” laws that say that TiVo-like devices that have antennae built in follow broadcasting laws, not Cable-TV laws. So they stuck non-functional antennae on a USB drive to make recording cable TV legal.
They check your ISP, if it isn’t local, it won’t stream. There are ways to get around this however.
This is really a logical development, because almost everyone has an internet connection and wifi, but many people live in areas with poor RF coverage by broadcast TV. The problem is even worse since the digital TV conversion. All this does is to give people like me, far from the cities, a decent signal for free broadcast TV...commercials and all. $8 a month is not bad compared to building a 100-foot tower.
The mini antenna is at their site, they then digitally stream it to your device. The value would be to someone living in an apartment with high speed internet and no good antenna reception.
The fight is the question of whether they had the right to stream copywrited programming that they do not own or have the license to stream.
It doesn’t record, it streams. They used the both the DVR and Sling Box defenses in court.
My only point was the “antenna” is not an antenna.
First thing is you dont have to worry about the Antenna not in the right position, the rain in the satellite or the dvr during a storm that you loose power.
Cloud is the key since its not at your location but you have exclusive rights to it. If I record Castle you can not watch my Castle recording.You still have access but its like RDP for computers. Cloud is the key.
The issue is I will leave directv and go this route since the channels I use to watch dont have the same programming. Weather Channel is worthless. News channels are to much political.
It is actually an antenna but at the cloud facility. Thats like any other cloud solution. The server is there but you dont have to push the powerbutton someone else at the cloud facility would.
If it’s not receiving radiofrequency waves, it’s not an antenna.
Why not just use rabbit ears? I can do that now for free and receive the same HD channels.
Correct. You have to sit infront of your tv tho.
With this you can watch your local weather alert from you local channel from iPhone or iPad.
The idea is that cloud involves the same concept you draw from you actual home tv but just removes it from your home and places it in the cloud.
I dropped sat service a decade ago. Put an antenna in the attic because the wife didn’t like the rabbit ears. I get 32 channels of perfect video rain or shine. I use a Roku for getting programming similar to satellite, my biggest issue is spotty internet service, no antenna reception.
Currently Directv app require you to be in your home wifi network before you can watch it on your phone.
We might be into a new tv age. Lets say instead of placing a Directv dish on your house, you just get an account to watch the same things but thru the internet.
This will allow you to sign into your directv account wherever and watch on your iPhone.
As long as there is an actual Satellite dish in the area you would be and its yours, you can have an account. No more converters or anything...
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