| still paying for TV January came with a 17.00 hike to cable TV. Also I was going to have to upgrade to HD channels and a HD DVR box in the very near future. Thought this was a little excessive in today's economy. Went out and bought a OTA antenna for the roof and installed between snow storms. I get around 20 something channels (including multi-casting) between 2 markets and the digital picture is way better than what we were getting on cable as it is compressed very little and sometimes in HD.Added a DVR and we never looked back. Sure, some of the channels have the same content, but with the DVR there is always something on when you are ready to watch. Wife's happy, kids happy--70.00 in my pocket every month.Will make up the equipment outlay in no time.I thought the cable company would start with the discounts talk when I called to cancel, they only asked one question (what are you switching to),and that was it, only,(thanks for staying a broadband customer),see-ya.
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| Is there any way to find out which channels you would get if you went OTA? For us, besides local/broadcast channels (NBC, ABC, etc) there are about 5 "must have" channels: Noggin, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, Food Network, and Discovery Channel. |
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| »tvfool.com has good info. You can type in your location and you should be able to see what channels are available in your area. Some of the maps are pretty interesting too - cool to see how far a station's coverage is supposed to go. |
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| Thanks. It does confirm my suspicion, though. If we went OTA, we wouldn't be able to get any of our "must have" non-local/broadcast channels. |
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| reply to Jason Levine
You will not get these channels, but, most of these programs run in some other form or exactly on regular OTA. But its not 24hr. That's why a DVR is almost mandatory to watch what you want to watch when you want to watch it.
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| So Mythbusters would run on an OTA station as well as on Discovery Channel? (Just curious.)
A DVR is mandatory anyway in our house. My little one is hooked on the Wiggles and *must* see them for hours on end. For our sanity, DVR recordings of many different Wiggles shows means that the same exact program won't play over and over and over again. |
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| what I am saying is for example-Discovery Channel-some of the program types that are shown (not exact shows) would be found on your local OTA PBS channel.Mythbusters is made for the Discovery Channel only. If have to have Mythbusters. You could buy or rent the DVD. You can log on to Zap2it.com under TV listings type in your zip and choose OTA Broadcast only and see whats on.PBS has kids shows running almost half the day--but no Wiggles.And again you need to be in a large Broadcast Market and that you can find out at tvfool.com
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