Yes. Serious. Lifetime ban on me about 10 years ago. I tried to get reinstated and the guy told me on the phone I would be but they never did. So I gave up on that.
What are the over the air antenna folks watching on tv?
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Are y'all using those small indoor antennas you can buy at Walmart, etc? I would like to have one to watch the local channels.
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I tried an indoor antenna at first but didn’t get reliable reception so I bought this small outdoor omnidirectional antenna. I’m about 40 miles from the main broadcast towers (Boston) and it works pretty good most of the time except during bad storms. It will depend greatly on how far you live from your TV towers, if not too far, an indoor antenna might work just fine.
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Spend a little bit and get a highly recommended antenna, have this one on my roof and it gets excellent reception, don't waste your money on cheap WM or rabbit ears as they just can't get the job done.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Antennas-Direct-Outdoor-HD-UHF-VHF-TV-Antenna/1000342941
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Nice!Spend a little bit and get a highly recommended antenna, have this one on my roof and it gets excellent reception, don't waste your money on cheap WM or rabbit ears as they just can't get the job done.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Antennas-Direct-Outdoor-HD-UHF-VHF-TV-Antenna/1000342941
We cut the cord (aka satellite) years ago, and that antenna is cheaper than what we were paying for one month of Directv!
We've been watching The Last of Us and Scarecrow and Mrs King from the 1980s. I have cable but don't watch it, but it's tied to my internet and somehow it is cheaper than al a carte.
I didn't know that over the air digital stations were still a thing but I remember they did that to free up AM,right?
I didn't know that over the air digital stations were still a thing but I remember they did that to free up AM,right?
Emergency is on for several hours each day on Cozi if you have it available in your area.
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During the season you can watch NFL football in pristine glory and I often turn off my Spectrum crap if watching at home.
I'm pretty sure this is one of the reasons that cable companies often offer much better sweetheart rates to owners of bars and restaurants than to residential customers, because a lot of daytime neighborhood bars would do just fine using an antenna to fill their TV's....
I think a local place can get phone, internet, and a pretty solid TV selection with sport channel options for less than $100 a month!
not much on TV after football is done + summer comes, as my Dish is currently paused @ $5 a month antennas look interesting though as typical TV rates like most everything are way overpriced IMO! i am now on my favorite "entertainment" until summer, a 17" laptop, lots of great info as well as some you tubes + on that note cant say enough about the Danish National Orchestra link posted by GON!!
The only thing I really watch anymore is The Simpsons and Family Guy, if I do flip through the channels, I just end up watching repeats of old sitcoms like Frasier or Seinfeld, sometimes I'll watch random cooking shows, This Old House, or The Joy of Painting on PBS or it's sub channels . But others in the house watch any NFL, MLB, or College Basketball games that come one, also NCIS Hawaii and Blue Bloods, and Friday Night Smackdown. We ditched cable but still need some sort of pay TV mostly for sports you can't watch OTA, so we have Sling with an AirTV and I have a nice big UHF and big High VHF antenna in the attic feeding into a Kitztech KT-700 amp.
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I just got an antenna recently and I get 29 channels from my bedroom with a 25 mile radius antenna. Surprising because there aren’t many tv stations in that radius here. It’s an antenna my dad gave me that he got when he planned to drop cable but didn’t. I mostly got it for Fox and NBC for baseball. Baseball is what I’ve watched the most and some football or racing too. And watch things like South Park, The Simpsons etc occasionally but mostly stream still. The antenna is mostly for sports.
Local news it’s always the best.
Major events like Super Bowl and Olympics
Everything else we stream with Roku players
We have done everything above for well over a decade now, actually about 15 years however we just moved into a new house last year. The wiring is in place but I really haven’t had the drive to go up in the attic and install an antenna to feed the TVs.
It is true what another has posted that many cases quality can be much higher than some standard cable TV services when using an antenna. With that said using the Roku player is much more acceptable to me than the old coax cable apparatus.
Plus, you don’t have to pay for a service to watch events like the Olympics when you have a TV antenna
Major events like Super Bowl and Olympics
Everything else we stream with Roku players
We have done everything above for well over a decade now, actually about 15 years however we just moved into a new house last year. The wiring is in place but I really haven’t had the drive to go up in the attic and install an antenna to feed the TVs.
It is true what another has posted that many cases quality can be much higher than some standard cable TV services when using an antenna. With that said using the Roku player is much more acceptable to me than the old coax cable apparatus.
Plus, you don’t have to pay for a service to watch events like the Olympics when you have a TV antenna
Watching some old tv series from Weirton WV station.
It's been my experience that OTA has by far the best high definition viewing experience. No compression of signal. And as if that's not good enough, ATSC 3.0 will have 8K Ultra high definition.
One of my TV's has an ATSC 3.0 tuner and I'm on antenna for the local channels. There has been a few times where I've received a NextGen channel show in 4K like this Nascar race. 2160p UHD is 4K. Normally shows 1080p on NBC, CBS or 720p on Fox and ABC.
I only get 12 OTA channels. Of those one is in Spanish and two are repeats so nine actually. During the day it's the same old soap opera & game show crapola so I seldom watch it at all. Streaming is 98% of my viewing with an occasional western over the air. Two of the nine are old Western channels.
Depends in source quality.
Barney Miller reruns. The show is 40+ years old, I pretty much know all of the lines by heart, and it's still funnier than the drivel that passes for humor today.
