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I am not really an electronics person. I can maybe replace a blown capacitor (sometimes) but that's about it. I do not understand digital circuits. So I have a question. In every modern TV, there is an LED display, and there are speakers. Now back in the old days of tube TV's you could get...

Depends on if you are content with watching a show once and then not ever being able to see it again, at least not conveniently. The point of recording something is that anything streaming can be gone tomorrow or next week or next month. As long as you have a recording you can watch it again...

Not using SiliconDust devices, perhaps, but there will just be too big a market of people who want to be able to record shows and skip commercials (as they have been doing for the past two or three decades) for the pirate box makers to ignore. I see this going one of four ways. One is that...

A new TV is fine if you feel like replacing a perfectly good ATSC1 TV just to get ATSC3, and if you are willing to watch TV at an appointed time, including all the commercials. I am not willing to do any of that. Particularly the "appointment television" thing. I can't even begin to express how...

The big question for me is will the new devices be able to internally (without the use of a "cloud" server) convert AC4 audio to 5.1 AC3. If not, then I have zero interest in the new box. And I will also have zero interest if they can't decrypt encrypted broadcasts. Sorry, but it's my opinion...

Nope. By law it has to be outside the home. Do you really want lightning coming inside your house and then trying to escape through a screw on a wall plate, which probably is NOT grounded because they used a plastic electrical box or "mud ring"? There are electrical codes for a reason!

Yes that grounding block will work. Ideally you would put it on the outside of your home as close as you can to the electric meter and electrical service entrance to your home. Run a #10 or larger wire from from the grounding block to the thick copper ground wire coming out of your electrical...

My first question about any devices such as this one is, does it have the capability built into it to convert the AC4 audio used by many ATSC3 channels down to the much more compatible AC3? Can it do this WITHOUT needing to have an active Internet connection (in other words without having the...

I live in a rural area, and it's Charter. Need I say more? It could be worse. Some people not too far from me can only get satellite "broadband" (I put that in quotes because the speeds are atrocious), and their service goes out any time there is a heavy rain, or there is too much snow on the...

Just beware that the Hd Homerun 4k Flex is unable to natively transcode AC4 audio (the format inexplicably used by many ATSC 3.0 broadcasters) to the more standard AC3 that most TV sets can decode. Instead, Silicon Dust (makers of the HD Homeruns) is apparently offering some kind of cloud-based...

Let's think about this... 20 years ago was around the time Voice-Over-IP telephony really started to take off, and many of us didn't get enough bandwidth from out ISP's to have a single audio conversation without a lot of breakups. 10 years ago, YouTube was just a few years into its existence...

If they keep expanding like they have been I suspect it won't be more than two or three years (if that) before it is available to you. Provided, of course, that the lawsuit against them doesn't go anywhere.

A couple of Firefox extensions that might help... https://github.com/NicolaeNMV/BehindTheOverlay https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean As for the wind farm, I'd be interested to know how much of an issue this actually turns out to be. There is an awful lot of negative...

Don't know if this applies in your situation but quite often when those things stop turning, or only turn very weakly the problem is the non-polarized capacitor in the control box unit. Those things do go bad and if you can find a replacement for that capacitor it might restore your rotator to...

This was the first thing I thought about when I read that. Many people live in places where they can receive TV stations from multiple markets but I'm sure the broadcasters would love it if they could restrict you to only watching the stations for "your" DMA, no matter how crappy those stations...

My understanding when it comes to ground rods is that more are better, BUT they must all be tied together, especially to the ground rod or ground wire feeding your home's service entrance. I had a situation similar to yours, where I came off an antenna tower and went immediately to a ground...

I can't answer for those manufacturers but I can tell you that if you use third party PVR software such as Tvheadend, you can have as many HDHomeRun tuners as you want, and probably this would be true of tuners from other manufacturers as well. Your biggest issue will be splitting your antenna...

I suspect he meant the headline is misleading, not that you were. I mean in one way it's accuate, because Scripps was the company that was fined, but on the other hand it's misleading because it implies that Scripps was at fault when clearly the tower lighting on towers they did not own at the...

Go to this page... DTV Reception Maps And enter his zip code or address. I tried using zip code 00957 which is probably at least close and the first thing I notice is that there are a whole bunch of independent stations that could possibly be received with an antenna, but the U.S. networks...

See Diginet Quest Debuts Tonight Their station list is at Watch Quest In Your Area

It's not a waste if the two transmitters give coverage to parts of the viewing area that otherwise would not receive an acceptable signal. In some places, particularly those at some distance from any major city, viewing areas can be quite large geographically and it would be nearly impossible...

I have a feeling this one's not going to go as expected. For one thing, unlike the difference between SD and HD, the difference between HD and UHD won't be perceptible to many users. I can barely tell the difference between 720p and 1080p content; what do I need with UHD? This will be like...

I don't understand one thing. Your listing shows WOTV in BATTLE CREEK, MI moving from channel 20 to channel 17. Its contour includes parts of the city of Muskegon and a good chunk of Muskegon County in Michigan, but there is already a translator for WXMI Grand Rapids operating on Channel 17...

I'm going to make a prediction here that many of you won't like, but it's how I think things are going. To give some background, consider that back in around the year 2000, most people still had corded wireline telephones. Cell phones were just starting to become affordable to the masses, and...

A better Sci-Fi channel than Comet, one that doesn't try to pass off horror or old B-grade drive-in movies as SciFi. There's lots of good old SciFi out there that wasn't made by MGM, including everything in the Star Trek series. And then there's Firefly (okay, short run, but it was still a...