Antenna TV (Not dish)

I did the same in December. I went from $175 a month to $65 a month, I kept just 50mbps internet. I used a Antennasdirect 2Max antenna with Clearstream Juice preamp. I bought both as open box on EBAY. I get over 60 channels, although many I don’t watch. I get one CBS, 2 NBC’s, 2 ABC’s, 2 Fox 2 PBS etc. I do have a couple ROKU but I only get free content on that. I do not miss the cable channels. It sucks to pay for commercials. I will do without baseball. I grew up listening. ESPN does not get $9 a month. The State of CT does not get to tax that $110 savings each month. I know quite a bit about cord cutting as far as broadcast channels, antennas etc. Antenna Signal Prediction is a great resource.


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I've tried an HD antenna. I can't get Local, over the air TV channels.

We'll be pairing back our Comcast channels. Explore FIOS, perhaps.

 

Well, you got a Roku, which helps. If you are smart about it, you can still get most of what you want for much less.

Vidgo has a deal for $10 for the first 2 months and you will get a lot for that.

What do you want to watch?

 

We quit Comcast TV quite a few years ago.
Put a TV antenna on the roof. DTV is a little bit pickier about which way the antenna is pointed, maybe because they cut back output power .
But I can get a station in New Hampshire on a good day and Boston and Providence isn't too bad when I keep the antenna pointed betwen the two to try to get both. In bad weather (rain or snow) I pretty much have to pick a direction to point to and since I'm not going out on the roof to turn it in the rain I just shut it off. (The picture just keeps freezing) PVD is about 30 miles away and Boston is about 60 miles away. I get about 30 channels but a lot of the secondary channels aren't much to brag about.
I haven't plugged it in for over a year now though.
There are websites online that will tell you based on your location what you need for an antenna to pick up broadcasts in your area .

 

Another good thing about watching TV via an antenna is you can’t be tracked. Your viewing habits don’t become metrics for the networks like they can when you view via cable or satellite(anything 2 way). I hate what statistics (big data etc) has done to all aspects of our lives. Work has changed and not for the better, sports has changed, baseball is not the same game anymore. There is not allot of downside to a proper antenna setup really. Just make sure you properly ground it.


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I will drink a beer with you WeldrDave!!

No help on the antenna.

 

Antenna TV here...always have been...get something like 45 channels, give or take...seems like that is always changing.
Internet is via hotspots from our cellphones...that cost $10/mo for 10 gigs data (for hotspot data...any data used directly by the phone is unlimited) normally plenty, but my wife did have to bump hers up when we/she switched to online school...that was 15 gigs more for another $10/mo...so we pay $30/mo in total for 35 gigs of hotspot data.
The only downside is if you want to watch lots of videos online, or stream movies, burn through that data pretty quick then.

Reading this almost took my breath away! I would have told them to pound sand long ago...probably from the very beginning.

 

• Here is my antenna it has a 75 mile range bought at Best Buy about 9 years ago. We get abc, nbc, cbs, fox, and several pbs channels. The string allows for fine tuning of channels left and right and up and down. They make them with longer mile ranges now. Works well enough. We try to limit how much time in front of the tv.

 

Never had cable here. Did the small antenna thing a few years ago. We just have internet cable and unlimited data on cell phones. We don't watch sports, or any shows. The cable shows make it to netflix or YouTube eventually. I can wait for them. I pick and choose news through social media. Weather is through local Boston station website.


We have a fire stick, Hulu, Amazon prime, etc. Plenty of stuff to watch on them. I guess I can't miss what I never had. I wonder how much I have saved over 20 years without the cord. No regrets not ever having cable.

 

Not much good out of tracking, except they can recommend shows and videos of similar interest. Other than that it is big brother...

 

Cancelled cable TV 4 years ago. Don’t miss it. Had to keep internet through the same cable company at $63 per month. We only have 10 MB/S which seems to be plenty for our needs. My tolerance level for their BS seems to have been much lower than yours.. now, when away from home, I don’t even turn on the TV. More peaceful that way.

 

We have 3 roku players and a fire tv. Amazon prime because we use it a lot, long before we did the tv thing. Sling because they have tons of college sports. Wife got some Netflix deal through her work and we pay like 15 a month for it. No antenna here. Dumped direct tv a couple years ago because of the cost.

 

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Mike: You didn’t do something right. We have a cottage fifty miles from the Hartford antenna cluster (rattlesnake mtn), and some good hills in between. Aiming the antenna with a compass I was able to pull in all the available channels in that area.


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Who needs TV when there is FHC?

 

Antenna here, we get about 18 or so channels. Only maybe 1/3 or so are worth anything. I would like to have some cable, there are a few channels and shows I would really like to have available. The thing I would like the most is the recording capability so we could watch later. Being able to pause, rewind and replay live tv is pretty amazing too. But I can't bring myself to pay those rediculous prices.

 

What street of internet speed do you have? Streaming might be perfect for you.