I have now problems with 'over the Air' reception.
Found this as an adjunct to the discussion on PBS. I keep getting hit by both Verizon and Comcast, and occasionally the satellite guys, to waste more money with them. Too many hands in my pockets now - don’t need another!
Cancelled my TV last year and haven’t really missed a beat thanks to the advent of Hulu and other similar websites. I don’t regret a thing.
When people don't have jobs they can't afford the high price of cable.
I tried to use the DTV antena box but not many channels came in. The NBC channel was very unpredictable on the reception. I’d love to be cableless but the reception with the DTV box just wasn’t good enough. Of course nowadays one can go without tv at all for sports. You can see all baseball, football, basketball and hockey games LIVE over the internet. I’ve had some times when I did not have cable and just used the antenna (before the DTV thing) and it was OK althought the reception was of course inconsistent. You definately do alot more reading when you dont have cable plus it was really nice not to have to write that check for 50 or 60 bucks to the cable company.
We switched to grabbing stuff from iTunes and are building up a library of things we actually want to watch. Paying for 120 channels that have no value to me to get 3 that sometimes do makes no sense.
And Netflix. If you have a nice 10gb line, you can stream in HD.
We can’t pick up anything off the air where I live, too rural and remote. We used to get a fuzzy signal from KOLO in Reno but when they went digital, that disapeared.
So let me get this straight...... we’re not the only family on the planet that doesn’t have cable? My kids will be disappointed to discover that they have been gravely mistaken :-D
If someone wants to sell you a “digital” TV antenna, one that costs a lot more than a normal TV antenna, ask them to explain, and put in writing, the difference between a digital TV antenna and a an analog TV antenna.
Not to mention that windy days will ruin most rabbit-eared-digital reception.....
I believe that the over the air signals have less video compression than the same channels on cable.
No.
You're big dorks for having rabbit ears instead of having a real antenna...
How to build an antenna.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8jsDxNgHn4
Digital tv is a mystery. First- the LOCAL channels are usually ‘no or weak signal’, while Telemundo and AlJazeera news are always perfect.
Second-WHY is an ‘improvement’ worse than old time analog tv? And why did analog need to be ‘freed up’- for what?
TV worked fine since it’s birth, now you’re lucky to see an un-pixelated channel. Miserable- usually not worth watching- and its always the program you want most to see that is screwy.
And——question— when free digital tv is obsolete, will we all be FORCED to pay for tv or do without? Another way for the government to control the mass media.
Digital tv is a mystery. First- the LOCAL channels are usually ‘no or weak signal’, while Telemundo and AlJazeera news are always perfect.
Second-WHY is an ‘improvement’ worse than old time analog tv? And why did analog need to be ‘freed up’- for what?
TV worked fine since it’s birth, now you’re lucky to see an un-pixelated channel. Miserable- usually not worth watching- and its always the program you want most to see that is screwy.
And——question— when free digital tv is obsolete, will we all be FORCED to pay for tv or do without? Another way for the government to control the mass media.
A couple of years ago I disconnected my cable and set up the DTV to watch ther world series games and the picture was actually clearer.
We live next to some tracks, and it gets a really nice picture until a train goes by.
I love the broadcast HDTV. Haven’t had CATV in years.