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Posted on 08/03/2017 5:04:40 PM PDT by RightGeek
Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air; is this legal?
“I was just kind of surprised that this is technology that exists,” says Mr. Sisco, 28 years old. “It’s been awesome. It doesn’t log out and it doesn’t skip.”
Let’s hear a round of applause for TV antennas, often called “rabbit ears,” a technology invented roughly seven decades ago, long before there was even a cord to be cut, which had been consigned to the technology trash can along with cassette tapes and VCRs.
The antenna is mounting a quiet comeback, propelled by a generation that never knew life before cable television, and who primarily watch Netflix , Hulu and HBO via the internet. Antenna sales in the U.S. are projected to rise 7% in 2017 to nearly 8 million units, according to the Consumer Technology Association, a trade group.
Mr. Sisco, an M.B.A. student in Provo, Utah, made his discovery after inviting friends over to watch the Super Bowl in 2014. The online stream he found to watch the game didn’t have regular commercials—disappointing half of his guests who were only interested in the ads.
“An antenna was not even on my radar,” he says. He went online and discovered he could buy one for $20 and watch major networks like ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS free.
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Lol.
I was mad when they went digital though. Now distant rural areas can’t get it at all.
My new TV Samsung smart 65” has a tuner..
Some of the local drug stores and variety stores had tube testers you could use for free.
And they sold the most common replacement tubes - most for less than a dollar.
I had two of the boxes to convert the digital to my old TVs.
TV sets have become so cheap that I now watch digital on HD TVs. I bought one for well under a hundred dollars and that was all I could afford.
Finally my Daughter bought me a 43 inch HD with 1080 resolution. Now they are going to even higher resolution.
As a someone who started with the CB craze as a 10 year old in the 70’s and eventually evolved to ham it has always been common sense to me. Had to inform a 30 something co-worker on this very subject recently. My 160 meter loop is beyond his comprehension.
This is a $117 Billion dollar industry currently. That is a lot of jobs. The economy was being bled out with a ton of money going overseas by the previous administrations. There does come a time when the American market dies. This is a symptom, and is nothing to laugh about.
And from my perspective, we are the one’s who went backwards when the swindlers conned everyone into paying for something that was previously free and even paying them now to watch commercials which they’ve already been paid for.
It’s one of the biggest con jobs ever.
And from my perspective, we are the one’s who went backwards when the swindlers conned everyone into paying for something that was previously free and even paying them now to watch commercials which they’ve already been paid for.
It’s one of the biggest con jobs ever.
Man, I am having flashbacks about vertical holds and horizontal holds.
And TV repairmen who came to the house to fix the TV.
Yes they did. But all newer TV’s are digital now. The problem is if there is anything in the way of “Line of sight” like a mountain or if you are more than 30 miles away you are not going to get it. No matter what kind of antenna you have.
I have a booster on my rabbit ears, but I’m thinking about mounting a big one in the attic.
LPs are making a comeback, too. Yes, vinyl albums — and the devices that play them.
“Behold, I make all things new again.”
It’s almost surprising over the air still exists in every market. Because of the digital tech local stations can parse their allotted bandwidth into several mini channels pretty cool actually & all you need is an antenna. Hilarious the snowflakes think they discovered something.
Yes those were the days. A few minutes before the station came on, they had an Indian Chief test screen up. Around 10 they played the national anthem as they signed off for the night. I think they went to midnight before too long and began playing old movies during the last two hours.
The local TV station in Panama City was WJDM. It went off the air so often that people began calling it “Wait Just a Damn Minute”. The station then changed their call letters.
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“What’s this black stuff on my fingers? How do I get it off?? Aaaaggghhh!!! Help!!”
Turntables and vinyl, too.
Read this and laughed. But the truth is that the younger generation has no conception of what life was like in this country before the 90’s.
It could be a ranther shocking experience swapping out tubes for the uninitiated.
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