An analogue antenna laundered through a marketing department.
CBS stations return to DISH
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Radio waves are radio waves. There is no such thing as a digital antenna. That is all just marketing.
I love going to the store and seeing antennas marked that they are HD compatible.
I love going to the store and seeing antennas marked that they are HD compatible.
Someone needs to look up the definition of "Most people", "Metro and Suburban areas" versus everyone, and Designated Marketing Area (DMA).
Now I need to go to the store to buy those HD sunglasses I keep hearing about on TV
I'm using a 44 year old antenna to receive digital signals. The antenna doesn't know the difference.Radio waves are radio waves. There is no such thing as a digital antenna. That is all just marketing.
I love going to the store and seeing antennas marked that they are HD compatible.
I can assure you that now one is receiving OTA around here on a low cost indoor antenna. Although we don't fit within the 30 mile metro or suburban footprint either. My point is a lot of satellite customers are in the woods/mountains and far from the transmitters. Around here most folks have gone to Satellite, but some antennas remain on some houses, and are gargantuan. We still have OTA operating on real 6, 7, and 12. I am only aware of 1 family around here that relies solely on OTA and they use the antenna that came on their house when they bought it. They get the channels they get and he is neither subscribing to satellite (no cable available) nor putting up a better performing antenna because he refuses to pay for TV. He is certainly the exception even around here.
See, you bought a "digital ready" antenna!
Let me put it thus way..back in the day a large portion of NYC viewing area could receive distants because they cannot easily receive a TV signal..once charlie lost his lawsuit we can only receive NYC stations..most cable companies switched to fiber feeds after 911 because they can no longer receive a reliable ota signal from the empire state building..at least where I live..in smaller metro areas I am sure a 30 dollar indoor antenna works just dandy but unless you actually live in NYC it is pretty useless most of the NYC dma
I will tell that to my cousin who lives in manhattan on a low floor and uses a PAPER CLIP stuck into the RF antenna jack (no joke) to receive local channels OTA that he's not able to receive locals in NYC reliably.
I agree but let him try and pickup a vhf channel..the big tall skyscrapers played havoc with the old vhf analog signals to the point that most stations built UHF repeaters which disappeared after cable became popular
Fiance just texted me that CBS is blacked out (Boston Market), and it is displaying something about CBS being unreasonable. So I guess they really did not extend.
I wonder if it got the download last night and now it is hosed. I'll have her restart it and see if that fixes it.
Is CBS All Access available on Roku? If so, Dish could send out refurb Rokus with a monthly credit again, like they did with AMC. (If the extensions end without an agreement.)
Damn, whoever made that antenna practically knew the future of TV signals!See, you bought a "digital ready" antenna!
