"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
01/09/2020 at 20:54 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
01/09/2020 at 20:54 • Filed to: None | 3
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This is where I had to position my antenna in order to receive a few important, distant stations. Not pretty, but it works...
Chariotoflove
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/09/2020 at 21:16 |
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Similar situation for me. I’m theoretically not too far from the towers, but my living room faces the wrong direction.
facw
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/09/2020 at 21:21 |
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Honestly, over the air HDTV was probably a mistake. Something like 98% of US homes are wired for cable (and the ones that aren’t probably aren’t receiving much in terms of broadcast signals either). It would have been a way better for the FCC to just require cable companies to send unscrambled “broadcast” channels over their lines and reallocate that spectrum towards more productive uses. It would have required some changes in the way things are done, but that was certainly true for the DTV transition as well.
XJDano
> facw
01/09/2020 at 21:34 |
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My 15 year and of house was wired for cable/satellite, but I’m to cheap. I used the cable throughout the wall to put the tv digital antenna in our upstairs bedroom, and split the signal, to go into the wall to the basement, then back up to the living room TV.
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facw
> XJDano
01/09/2020 at 21:37 |
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Yeah, I’m not saying that everyone should have to sign up for cable, I’m saying that the cable companies should have had to provide that “basic” service to everyone for free. They might have resisted, but frankly given how much they are charged to “rebroadcast” over the air channels to their customers, it would have been a huge win for them to say “provide this stuff for free, or you don’t get broadcast at all”.
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XJDano
> facw
01/09/2020 at 21:45 |
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I totally agree.
I was actually get in bad reception from downstairs, and good upstairs. I was able to use one antenna for both TV. Not bad for a construction worker.
Also stance on Cable TV is, I’m not going to pay for something I hardly watch anyway. If I paid for it, I’d be trying to get my money’s worth out of it by watching it. Amazon is enough.
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/09/2020 at 23:22 |
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We have one of those; my wife watches this BBC show that’s broadcast on a NY station and the amplified antenna pulls it in from CT. Our cable provider now has that BBC channel so the antenna got put in a box somewhere.
Worth every penny of the $200/mo we’re now paying.
/s
Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
01/10/2020 at 07:46 |
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When I first moved in to my house ten years ago I had DirecTV. When I cancelled that, I pulled the dish off the roof and p ut an ae rial in its place. I’m probably the only person in my entire development who has an outdoor aerial, but I get most stations well. Except my my local ABC station which broadcasts in low VHF for some unknown reason