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   simpsonfan2 said, 5 months ago

   Ours is on the roof.
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   firedome said, 5 months ago

   however, now, with digital tv, the signal carries a far shorter distance and is far more line-of-sight. true, the picture you DO get is absolutely crystal clear, but if the antenna was to deviate, even slightly, from the direction from where the signal was coming, the picture would pixilate, stop or go blank altogether.
   i’d rather have ghosts and snow.
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   Leo Autodidact said, 5 months ago

   @firedome

   Agreed, I don’t watch much, so I don’t have cable, but when they “Changed” I lost 5 stations. Even WITH that stupid $30.00 box I had to get.

   When I “broke down” and got a new set a few months ago I STILL didn’t get them back!
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   Jon Ormsbee said, 5 months ago

   Definitely an interactive, immersive, and participatory experience.
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   Chris Maple said, 5 months ago

   @Leo Autodidact

   You’re not getting a strong enough signal; a superior TV set can only make up part of the higher signal requirements of digital TV. To stand a chance of recovering your lost stations you need to improve the part between the airwaves and the TV: much better antenna properly aimed (and raised above obstructing landscape, if possible), high quality leadin wire from antenna to TV, and possibly an amplifier at the antenna.
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   LuvThemPluggers said, 5 months ago

   ..and who can forget yelling out the window at a person adjusting the antenna on the roof, “Better……… Worse!…… WORSE!”
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   KasparV said, 5 months ago

   @LuvThemPluggers

   We had an electric rotor on our TV antenna with the controller on top of the TV. You could adjust it while watching the picture yourself.
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   LuvThemPluggers said, 5 months ago

   @KasparV

   Yeah, the electric rotors came later, for those that could afford them. No more risking life and limb on the roof! My dad thought TV was a passing fad, loved his AM radio all his life.
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   UncaJim said, 5 months ago

   Yeah, what Chris Maple said;
   An outside UHF antenna, (not deep fringe) and a booster usually does the trick.. When they ‘went over,’ with a good box from BestBuy, instead of the usual static and ghostly 5 channels ‘off-air,’ I suddenly wound up with 23 digital channels. Admittedly, 4 were bible-thumpers, 4 shopping channels, and another 4 were PBS 1930’s b/w (hah!) ‘classics’.clunky, jumpy, gargly sound, patched-together video, But no more static and ‘ghosts’..
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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    @LuvThemPluggers

    Our problem was solved with a rotar
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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    @KasparV

    We did too..
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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    @LuvThemPluggers

    Just $70 for ours
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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    @UncaJim

    You can block those channels you don’t want
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    comicsssfan said, 5 months ago

    Free tv is great. You don’t feel compelled to watch it because you’ve paid too much for cable. And the channels are less, just the basic stuff.
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    UncaJim said, 5 months ago

    @Tigger;

    Ohhhh, yes! Built my first TV in 1954, so I’m pretty much up on the technology, but boy you oughta see the fun I have with geezers my age that haven’t the foggiest !
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