| reply to Jason Levine
Re: OTA antenna I'm 20-30 miles from the stations I watch.
I used to get marginal reception with a medium range rooftop antenna.
When the antenna started coming down in a storm I took it down and never bothered replacing it.
I was very surprised to find an indoor mant510 philips amplified antenna worked fine for me and I'm in a wooded hilly part of the country. I figured it would be worthless but I pick up everything in the region. In the summer wind, with the leaves on the trees, it sometimes cuts in and out if located on the far side of the house. If the antenna is on the side of the house facing your stations it helps, especially by a window.
If you already have a rooftop antenna I would use it, especially if you want to feed 2 televisions. If not it might be worth it to get an amplified indoor antenna (maybe $40 at wal-mart) and a $40-50 converter box (also at wal-mart) and see what your results are.
My main point is that I've found the range of getting a reliable signal to be much better with digital.
40+ miles out then you would probably need to invest in a decent rooftop antenna and mount which is more like $100-200.
I have 4 pbs subchannels that always have a combination of travel, cooking, history 24 hours a day and a 24 hr/day childrens subchannel, in addition to the standard pbs station schedule for the area. It's actually better than cable or satellite as far as I'm concerned. |
