Are you able to get over-the-air broadcast TV with an antenna?
Just chiming in to say this is still a viable option today. Our house had an antenna already installed when we bought it in '07, and I've kept it installed ever since. Great for local news, weather, and (some) sports. Also nice for FM.
Sports is better OTA as well, it's uncompressed.
Sports is better OTA as well, it's uncompressed.
Compared to streaming? Or compared to cable/satellite?
Nightfox
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By: Nightfox to The Lizard Master on Wed Feb 12 2025 02:25 pm
Sports is better OTA as well, it's uncompressed.
Compared to streaming? Or compared to cable/satellite?
Nightfox
All of those are compressed, so OTA (with clean signal) will always beat those.
All of those are compressed, so OTA (with clean signal) will always beat those.
OTA is compressed video as well, but uses more bandwidth per channel and thus supports real-time encoding at higher (perceived) fidelity. I think DirecTV used to allocate extra-high bandwidth channels for special live (e.g. sporting) events too, but I'm not sure if they still do.
OTA is compressed video as well, but uses more bandwidth per channel and
thus supports real-time encoding at higher (perceived) fidelity. I think
I recently dumped my cable, was getting way to expensive for the amount of time i watched it. I bought a antenna to pick up local stations. I get about 30 stations but it all depends on where you live and if you have a lot of trees and buildings blocking your signal. Also I use a bunch of the free streaming services like Pluto, Roku TV and Plex Tv. Plenty of decent stuff on there to make me happy.
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Good for you. We never had cabletv out here in the sticks, but 2 years
ago we did get cable available and we just went with internet only. We went from 8 mbps down to 400 mbps. It is so nice. We still only use digital antenna and get 40 channels on the mountain here. Sometimes now
we watch freevee for judge Judy or old tv shows. Love ME tv. My brother speaks highly of Pluto, we will try it.
Have a good day cozmo.
We use Pluto because it came with the LG TV we bought. We had the TV for a yearbefore we connected it to the internet. LOL. Pluto seems easy to understand. Itreminds me of a kind of tuner. Lots of good one show only channels. I rememberGood for you. We never had cabletv out here in the sticks, but 2 years ago we did get cable available and we just went with internet only. We went from 8 mbps down to 400 mbps. It is so nice. We still only use digital antenna and get 40 channels on the mountain here. Sometimes now > Ri> we watch freevee for judge Judy or old tv shows. Love ME tv. My brother > Ri> speaks highly of Pluto, we will try it.
Have a good day cozmo.
Pluto and roku TV are pretty decent. Cable was more of a convienance more th > anything but, definitely not worth the price. I love Crime TV on my local OT > channels.
Have a good one!
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Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming
is much more wholesome. Where I live now, they are just starting to run cable lines up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except
maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast. Especially now that I am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.
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Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming
is much more wholesome.
Where I live now, they are just starting to run
cable lines up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except
maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast.
Especially now that I am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.
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Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming is much more wholesome. Where I live now, they are just starting to run cable
lines
up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except
maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast. Especially now that
I
am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.
I don't think Cable is worth the price anymore at least for me. There are so many free
options out there to use. Hopefully the lines will reach you soon and you'll be able
to
stream and use the free services without worring about data.
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Bogomips wrote to Cozmo <=-
Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming is much more wholesome.
I was hoping to get local news and PBS on an indoor HDTV antenna, but
all I get was CBS, lots of religious and Spanish-language programming,
and some interesting retro sitcom channels.
With a Roku, the antenna input is called "live TV" and includes a ton
of streaming channels. If I was on a serious budget, I could get by
watching free streaming with basic internet service quite well.
Where I live now, they are just starting to run
cable lines up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast. Especially now that I am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.
300-600 megabits/second and a 1.2 terabyte/month would be an adjustment
from hotspot internet...
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Also, with cable a portion of your bill is automatically given to certain networks, even if you don't watch them or agree with their progamming.
Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
By: Cozmo to Rixter on Sat Feb 22 2025 11:00 am
Good for you. We never had cabletv out here in the sticks, but 2 years ago we did get cable available and we just went with internet only. We went from 8 mbps down to 400 mbps. It is so nice. We still only use digital antenna and get 40 channels on the mountain here. Sometimes now > Ri> we watch freevee for judge Judy or old tv shows. Love ME tv. My brother > Ri> speaks highly of Pluto, we will try it.
Have a good day cozmo.
Pluto and roku TV are pretty decent. Cable was more of a convienance more th > anything but, definitely not worth the price. I love Crime TV on my local OT > channels.
Have a good one!
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... Enter any 12-digit prime number to continue.We use Pluto because it came with the LG TV we bought. We had the TV for a yearbefore we connected it to the internet. LOL. Pluto seems easy to understand. Itreminds me of a kind of tuner. Lots of good one show only channels. I remember
they had a Star Trek Classic channel that ran the old Star Trek Shows 24/7 and
we left it there for weeks. That is kind of nice.
Have a great weekend Cozmo!
Rixter
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