An antenna will receive uncompressed signals which are always of the highest quality—but many times you need to position it near a window or else the interior structure of the home may interfere with the signal. Personally, I just plug my TV directly into the cable jack on the wall without an antenna and then go to the settings on the tv and do a complete scan.
Does anyone realize your carrier is ripping you off if they render this pickup method moot with some kind of signal kill tech? As others have implied, carriers are legally required to render their paying customers the same OTA channels their STBs bring in regardless of HOW those particular stations come to the television i. Yeah, pretty much a moot point, huh? But, at least if you buy a new tv with one built in you can try it!
So how do you this i have anttena but only get 8 channels i live in a apartment on lower level i hsve the anttena in the window but the channels are not coming through like they should any suggestions. Various factors can impact your ability to pick up stations including line of sight—so even if the antenna is in a window, there might be trees or poles or even other houses blocking the signal.
The distance from the signal tower is also a big factor as is the materials your home is built with metal is not good for any kind of signals such as over-the-air tv or even cell phone.
You can try positioning it in a different part of the window or even try not putting it the window but on the opposite side. If we undo the antenna. Again no antenna. Antenna pointing exactly in the correct spot…. Can you put your instructions in very layman terms…. Basically all I do is attach my television directly to the wall with an F-type cable. What Eric means is to use the lines provided the cable companies.
I have been using this method for years. I have internet only through cable line and they had an analog filter in line to fuzz out the basic cable but my tuner was still picking up HD channels.
I was getting mad channels for a bit because they implemented the new digital box for TV and removed my analog filter for a couple months. Then when they cut out analog and new system was activated it cut me out almost entirely.
I can now get a couple stations but they come and go. If your TV is older it might now have the decoding capability.
Your cable provider also has a lot do with your success. You may want to check out the options I mentioned in the yellow box at the end of the article. If you plug into the wall you could get OTA over the air channels ATSC encoded the funny channels with decimal points … usually best reception is with a good digital antenna. This can be a simple mistake on their part — or I have also known cable companies to not filter it out if you have internet service from them; it will be basic cable.
I usually watch movies… so I am an avid Roku user. Would I get similar results with a digital antenna and the scanning procedure? However, you can always try plugging your TV directly into your cable jack and run the scan to see if anything comes through.
If you go to the yellow box toward the top of the article, and use the link I have in there it will take you right to a page on Amazon that is all antennas and nothing else—I like to make it easy hahaha. Thanks Eric, and so fast! I wish I had an Aldi nearby! Thanks so much for the info, and keep it coming dude- you have a cool way about you! Actually, the trick should still work as long as the wall coaxial s meet the dish on the other end.
Its not really so different from having the in-walled coax system running beyween coax wall inputs and an outside feeder to the cable lines. The only difference is the house coax feeds to a private dish and not a bunch of fiber or standard overhead lines so its technically less convoluted : the dish receives satellite fequencies and then feeds those to sat carrier decoder STBs in your home.
But only the privatised channels would be outscrubbed from TV tuner pickup. WTF is this? This is interesting… How much did you pay for your Apple TV?
If I am interested in watching some series or news, I will find it online. Like the Netflix or something similar. Eric — this works for me, and has been for a while. My question is whether there is a way to DVR this content, ideally with a program guide? The heading in this needs to change. A person just needs a TV with an HD tuner. I know of no cable company that provides HD stations in their basic subscription package.
The HD stations are in higher-tier combo packages or a separate package altogether just for HD. And while you are partially correct that all local stations broadcast in HD, that signal is only freely available over-the-air with an HD antenna and with some luck depending on where you can place it or what your home structure is made of.
The HD stations that come through on my specific television are on -2 channels such as , , etc. None of the junk works well. No matter who says what. I got a Leaf antennae from Fryes it works so-so. What a damn nightmare and a rip-off! It works worse than the Leaf. Amazon only offered PART of my money back. There are so many variables when it comes to over-the-air television including line-of-sight, distance to towers, weather conditions, etc.
I tried your suggestion with a bit of a workaround. Any suggestion on how to get those channels? The scan function on my TV worked quickly, what took the most time was figuring out where the cables go. With satellite, you have zero access at all without paying, my guess is that your dish is actually acting like an antenna of sorts. Eric, Thanks for the reply. A lot of articles say I need to hook up an antenna to the dish to be able to get several of the free TV stations I want.
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Or consider watching online directly from your favorite cable TV channel web sites. We still have cable. We have a very modest package. I did, however, just turn in our cable boxes and remotes to save some cash on our monthly bill. It was connected on a secondary TV that no one was watching.
They rarely watch content on a TV, but often on some other type of device. The kids and I were just talking last night about how much technology has changed since you and I were kids.
I still remember the first family in our major metropolitan city to get cable. It was a big feature on the evening news.
Thanks for the comment, Joe! It was a treat to watch when I used to travel for work and stay in a hotel, but my wife and I are too cheap to pay for cable since we only like to watch two shows that air on local channels. We stream those online after the children go to sleep. You can read the news online for free and see quite a few video clips on their websites too.
Thanks for all the info! You are so right! Right now is a great time to find alternatives to cable or satellite! There are many great offers out there! Thanks for sharing! This sounds great, but there are none that I have seen that give the shows we watch: Fox News, movie channel, SCI, cooking, and a few more.
I understand.
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