We just picked up one of those flat flexible pad ones at Walmart .....paid about $12.00 for it , and very pleased . I think we get about 23 stations and live pretty much out in the country .
Don't fall for the hype, there is no "digital" antenna. Your distance from the station transmitters is the important part. Antennaweb will tell you how far and what direction.Looking at turning off the dish as we watch almost exclusively the local stations.
Anyone have any recommendations on digital antennas?
Anyone have any recommendations on digital antennas?
One way to find out on the antenna. At minimum you're looking at an attic mount and probably the higher the better if you go roof mount.I live on a small knoll about 35-45 miles (LOS) from the antennae farms in Ft Wayne and South Bend. I’m wondering if we could get a good digital signal from these broadcast channels.
If so, I’d look into dropping CATV, only keeping Xfinity for internet access. Then subscribe to the video services that we actually use. Broadcast rank-ordered are CBS, NBC, PBS and ABC. CATV are HBO, Showtime, STARZ, ESPN, CBS sports, TCM (not necessarily rank ordered). We also have access to Prime video, Netflix and HULU.
It seems to me that our primary requirement will be good high speed Internet. We have WiFi in our house. Probably 4 tv’s one of which is a “smart TV and the others have/could have blue ray type boxes to connect to WiFi.
Any thoughts from the INGO hive mind?
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Be sure you do some math. Most companies charge more if you just want internet. You also have all the streaming exclusives now days where you have to pay for multiple streaming services to get all the content you want. The cost will approach the TV packages of the big names if you're unlucky. Then there's picture/audio quality to consider if you care about such things. Streaming services can claim all they want that they are delivering 4k content but it's compressed to hell to fit down residential internet bandwidth defeating the purpose of the extra pixels. Audio is a similar situation but I don't think most people care as much about multi channel audio.ATT 2 yr. contract ran out.
Bill went from $120 up to $197.
Internet went from $30 to $50 and the rest was cable.
I talked ATT into bringing it down to $150/month since I told them I was going to cancel cable that day and just keep internet till I could switch to Comcast b/c I was never going to pay over the $120/month.
I could just cut the cable and get Sling, Netflex and/or whatever: trying to figure out what to get.
We must have Hallmark, HGTV and my documentary nature/history channels.
Don't know whether our ATT will handle streaming (only have 25 speed available in this neighborhood) and we have had connectivity issues (just 2 nights ago everything went out.
I have a special little "box" just to get internet on my laptop b/c I couldn't stay connected w/o it.
My 34 yr. old son said 25 speed is all we need with just the 2 of us running at worst two TVs and two computers on at the same time.
Choices:
a. get Comcast for around $120ish/month contract for 2 yrs: acceptable till they raise it, then cancel cable and go to streaming of TV at that time
b. use present ATT and try to stream TV ($50). I can't get speed of 50 here (I did in other neighborhood before moved).
c. Use Comcast for just cable and learn which streaming TV connections to get (Sling, Netflix, etc).
I'll read through all this again to get educated.
My 34 yr. old son and 39 yr. old daughter have already done this.
My SIL commented once that with the ancillary services he had for streaming, it costs nearly as much as when on a promotional with Comcast or ATT, so not too much gained other than not having to switch every year or two (like the game my son had been playing since he got out of college).
Sounds about right if you don't own the cellular equipment. We have four cellular lines with Verizon just under $200 with unlimited everything but all the devices are purchased outright. IMO Verizon is the best cellular provider if you want coverage and speeds. That and AT&T pushing their "5Ge" network non-sense. TV & Fiber internet are through AT&T because they are the only fiber option and DirecTV offers the best TV picture/audio quality right now. ~$180 for 100 Mbps service and the mid tier DirecTV package. I need to call and play the CSR roulette game with them since we're just outside our 12 month promotion. TV & internet were $130 before.Im about ready to drop directv i think. We currently have the highest package they offer and i feel we are getting screwed. I watch baseball and there are some shows we watch. We also have Netflix and amazon and hulu vudu and i cant remember what other stuff. I can rent movies via those and dont even need the directv to rent stuff. Also i believe i can subscribe to hbo and premium channels on my netflix or Amazon.
Any ideas?
We havent been under any contract in a long time. Im just tired of paying ATT over $600 a month. Cells, tablets, directv, internet. Just seems like a rip off. Also i think their cell service sucks and im considering switching to verizon wireless.