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who else watches TV with an antenna?
i use an antenna atop a mast outdoors 21%  21%  [ 6 ]
i use rabbit ears atop the tv set 25%  25%  [ 7 ]
i get basic cable 11%  11%  [ 3 ]
i get expensive premium cable 18%  18%  [ 5 ]
i don't watch tv 25%  25%  [ 7 ]
Total votes : 28

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20 Aug 2010, 8:13 pm

danandlouie wrote:
advantage to living in city....i have cheap antenna sitting inside a cabinet, with doors closed, and pick up local nbc, cbs, abc, pbs(3), and fox. with recent digital switch, of course, you either have great reception or nothing. cable box allows 125? channels on another set. ok, ok, i'm gimpy. don't get out often.


being a stay-at-home in the city is much better than being one out in the sticks. but i never liked cable boxes. they get in the way of using a video recorder. unless you rent one of those boxes with the recorder build-in.

danandlouie wrote:
multiple antennas, high as possible, may be necessary for 20 plus miles. no fun.


you can say that again. having to pay somebody to climb a backyard tree to erect a huge deep-fringe antenna was an act of desperation on my part, to get SOME tv reception at all. that is what i get for living over 50 miles from the nearest transmission tower.

danandlouie wrote:
cable hdtv looks stunning. using last hdtv /tube/ 1080i/ set made by sony. led's look terrible by comparison-even 1080p/120hzs. too bad the sucker weighs 240 lbs.


yea, my old trinitron looked pretty good in comparison with some flat-screen wall tv sets, at least with NTSC programming.



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26 Aug 2010, 4:46 am

at least when there was still NTSC broadcasting [before the present digital misadventure] over the air tv had one advantage over cable, and that is it usually never was subject to a global blackout, whereas sometimes the cable will just go out for unknown [to end user] reasons.



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01 Sep 2010, 5:00 am

it rained buckets today so i was pleasantly surprised to note that the digital reception didn't suffer as much as i thought it would. when high winds come the reception goes out the window though. i wouldn't have thought those wee little tv waves could get blown away like that :roll: