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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Thanks.
I need to look at coverage where I am with a digital antenna.
The reason we went DirecTV 20 years ago was the over air reception brought in three channels.
Not a big sports watcher, but I do like to sit down on a chilly Sunday afternoon and watch the 49'ers.
Worth a look. Thanks again.
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I just dumped Comcast (Xfinity) Triple Play. I had HDTV, Phone and Blast Internet. I was paying $207 a month and had no premium channels. When my contract ended my monthly payment went up $30 with no additional service. I was renting 1 HD Box, a Cable modem, and two SD boxes for bedroom TVs. Comcast tried to sell MORE services rather than help me reduce my bill so I dumped them.
Since we don't watch much TV we decided that we no longer needed this unnecessary expense and have dumped Cable TV and home Phone. Further, I cut my Comcast-delivered Internet speed down as (according to my IT brother) I did not need that much bandwidth so what I was paying was a waste of $.
I've done quite a bit of research over the last few months on entertainment options:
1. I put an antenna on the roof - I live too far from a major city to get a bunch of channels but I can get ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Ion, FOX and couple of independents. (BTW the HD picture quality is FANTASTIC, the cable companies compress the HD signal to stuff so much crap down the line they take all the detail of their delivered HDTV service - like what an MP3 does to the original music).
2. Subscribe to Netflix streaming, Amazon and might get Hulu+
3. Bought a Roku (neat little box)
So far (I was already paying for Amazon Prime and Netflix anyway) I am saving $153 a month. That will be over $18,000 in 10 years!
We are very happy with our choice.
Like the McDonald's theme song... I'm Loving it.
For a good idea of what stations in your area you can pickup over the air try the TVFOOL.COM website. It will print out a map of stations around you, and where you will need to point your antenna. I've learned a lot lately and would be glad to help you interpret the graphs if you need it.
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