Yes, this is accurate.
Never mind that: were any wabbits harmed, and were they in season?
I could believe it. I have Digital TV through my phone line. The worst picture quality is on local broadcast channels. Fortunately I very rarely watch them.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
What comes around goes around. Aren’t you sorry you dumped grandpa’s antenna?
Question: Why does my cheap itty bitty little TV that I can put on a bathroom vanity get better reception than a 32” Sony that we have in our family room? I’ve tried rabbit ears and without cable that TV is no good.
TV is de work of de debbil!
You may have to fiddle with the antenna, direction wise and near-outside-wall wise, but I have a few friends who all claim they get great HDTV reception from a dopey antenna, practically a bare wire. Watch, Salvation Army thrift stores will now become cool places to shop for used rabbit ears from the fifties.
I suspect that anyone in the LA Basin should be able to get most every local HD Channel with a set of rabbit ears.
Its time to buy coathanger stock.
LOL we did this when we first got our 42” plasma! *giggles* It looked rediculous — but it worked! Now we have dish (which bites).
This totally confuses me. I bought my Mom, who lives in a rural area with broadcast TV, a Phillips HDTV for last Mother’s Day. The picture is brilliant, and she gets channels that I don’t get on my cable service, like the PBS Create channel, which I’d never heard of.
So when I call my cable company lately to ask what would happen when I get an HDTV (because I want one soon and I am checking it out), they say I would need an HD box, not my current digital cable box, even if I buy a TV with HD in it, as opposed to the “HD-ready” TVs. Then, even though they have been advertising that they now carry local broadcast HD channels, she tells me I’d need an HD antenna for that! I am fed up - it’s kinda pathetic when I might have to trust the guys at Best Buy who sell me the TV more than my cable company (Mediacom).
I don’t care what kind of reception you’re going to give me,
I’m not getting an enema.
I had a set of rabbit ears for the HD TV. We replaced them with another antenna we mounted in the attic.
The rabbit ears were not that good, when I was washing the dishes in the kitchen, the signal would go bye bye. Because my body was in the way of the waves on their way to the antenna.
Yes, this is accurate.
I had a set of rabbit ears for the HD TV. We replaced them with another antenna we mounted in the attic.
The rabbit ears were not that good, when I was washing the dishes in the kitchen, the signal would go bye bye. Because my body was in the way of the waves on their way to the antenna.
Yes, this is accurate.
I had a set of rabbit ears for the HD TV. We replaced them with another antenna we mounted in the attic.
The rabbit ears were not that good, when I was washing the dishes in the kitchen, the signal would go bye bye. Because my body was in the way of the waves on their way to the antenna.
Yes, this is accurate.
Why do I imagine Al Bundy instructing his family to “assume Fox viewing position” with coat hangers and tin foil?
It’s accurate, sort of.
I just bought an HDTV. Most only come “over-the-air” HD capable. A few are “cable-ready” which does NOT mean you can just plug and play. Very few are actually satellite HD ready.
For instance—I bought a cable-ready HD set for X-Mas. What that means is that you don’t necessarily have to rent/buy the cable company’s HD converter, but you DO need a cable card which plugs into the set (hence the “cable ready” tag). The cable card runs about $100, but you own it.
As far as my cable company goes, I have digital cable but only about 12 channels are broadcast full-time in HD (all the locals, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, and one HBO). The rest are digital, but still 480p.