Mobile DTV on the cheap

[Mike O'Dell]

interesting...

about the only TV i ever watch has 2 characteristics

(1) it's been laundered through the Tivo
(2) it's never on a channel available OTA

email is the best analogy for TV. Just as my primary
metric for an email program is how fast i can throw out
the crap i don't care about, the Tivo serves the same
purpose for TV - it filters out the crap i don't care about.

the only time i watch something live or originated by an
OTA-available station is when there's some genuine need
for real-time information - like a WX event or some
significant international news story. (these are quite rare)

BBCAmerica is cable-only for almost all intents and purposes
as is TheWeatherChannel (for "Storm Chasers" - a trip back home)

i guess i'm an outlier

	-mo


On 1/16/11 1:13 PM, Bob Bruninga wrote:
>> With the switch from analog to digital my broadcast
>> TV reception has been excellent. So much so that
>> I've canceled cable service. In the Waldorf Maryland
>> area I now receive 42 channels, far more than I have
>> time for.
>
> I'm in glen burnie with a tiny UHF yagi about a foot long (I think it was
> the UHF portion of a much larger antenna I found in the dump.)  Its on my
> chimney and we are not high at all.
>
> With pre-amp mounted at the antenna and pointed to DC, I get 55 channels
> (all the baltimiore channels come in off the back due to my proximity to
> Baltimore).
>
> Concur, no need for cable at all.
>
> Bob, WB4APR
>
>
> Richard
>
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