Posted on 05/24/2009 5:01:59 PM PDT by knarf
I'm layed off and I've had to drop my satalte service.
Is there a free, online site where I can watch live, streaming FOX and other stations?
I wish you hadn't told me that. I didn't even know there was a Sharpe's Rifles series. Now my life is ruined.
MSN.com has a tv section. They have current as well as classis shows.
I watch HULU and others on the internet exclusively. Few if any commercials. Can watch a 1 hour TV show in 43 minutes with a few 15 seconds commercial interspersed every 15 minutes for so.
One good way is to google the title of the show you want to see and you will probably pick up dozens of free sources (which usually offer a variety of other pre run shows.
Once they show a program it is no longer rerun so they are only making use of what they have to pick up some additional revenue. That is why the commercials online are so short. The more in demand a program is (live) the more people want to pay for commercials - thus you have to listen to 4-5 minutes every 10 minutes or so.
Not so on the internet. You can pick when and what you want to watch.
AND IT IS FREE. LET ME REPEAT THAT - IT IS FREE !!!
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A bowtie antenna, if you’re not a DIY type, is the best kind and one of the cheapest too. I got mine at Radio Shack with the necessary adaptor (for connecting it to a length of coax, you may not need to do that) for like five bucks. I hang it in the window and get all the channels, even some from out of town.
And to RightOnTheLeftCoast, my new DELL is all black which I hate ... I'll be switching out keyboards tomorrow .. I type with my head down and usually spell check everything ... but between my eyes and a black keyboaed ...
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Hey .. that’s a cool ant tilly (uncle Ralph’s wife ... /8^) ..) ..but ... no converter box? ... Just the antenna?
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Very good series. Sean Bean plays Sharpe.
I believe Orlando is relatively flat, that makes all of the difference.
I grew up in the northeast, and played with antennas (roof, attic and indoor), traps (Jerrold), vhf amplifiers, and all sorts of other toys including a home made channel specific Yagi antenna as a youngster. Elevation is crucial, and PA is filled with valleys, populated valleys. Rural in PA can also mean 100 miles from a low wattage station in Dubois. The state only has two big league cities (both at the extremities), while Florida has at least four.
I never built one, but an outdoor VERY LARGE rhombus antenna is another good (and cheap) way to go. Seventy miles for lower VHF signals (2-5) is not that impressive, and digital TV is more fussy than analog for reception. WIth analog, you might get a snowy picture, with digital such conditions may yield nothing.
If the poster is in northeast PA and is within shooting distance of NYC stations, I would still recommend a good roof antenna for best results. On the other hand, if you are not fussy about WHERE you put your indoor antenna, you might get lucky and find a “hot spot.”
LOL!
Oh and a great thread btw.
Please shut up! ;-) I’m trying to forget you told me that this exists because I have a deadline of critical importance this week, and I have to stay away from TV. And I’m one of those people who can resist anything except temptation.
If you get your internet through a cable company, use a splitter and hook the coax up to your TV, most cable internet like comcast sends their basic tv over the same cable as the internet connection.
I’m tellin’... ;o)
What a fun thread.
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