Where do you live and which one do you have and is it working well for ya?
Especially curious to hear from those who live close-ish to me: Central District, etc.
Any other specs/etc to look for, besides HD resolution? Some of them don't mention a mileage range, but for a house close to the center of a major city I'm guessing that's not a concern?
Thx in advance.
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just like old school antennas. buy big and put up high.
you can get an idea of what you'll get using one of the reception maps available online: http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/dtvmaps/
i get more than they show. i get all the local channels, some local duplicates i didn't know existed, some weird old timey movie channels, a whole bunch of spanish channels, and some home shopping channels. and that's all from the antenna sitting in my basement waiting to get installed in the attic. when it goes in the attic i'll probably get a bunch more. would be even better outside.
the local stations will come in full HD in beautiful resolution. i think the cable stations put a bunch of compression on their local channels, you'll be amazed.
i augment my television with netflix, amazon, and torrents. i've been real happy since cutting that cord.
not necessarily a plug for this product, but you can get also get a digital tv tuner with this and have full dvr capabilities without a cable company's involvement. I've not tried this, but would be interested to others experience with them...
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Mostly what Derrick said.
I had an old school antenna at my house at 21st and Union for years. (actually its still up there, tho we've had directv for awhile now) I always had problems getting steady reception from Fox (Seahawk games)
Not sure if it was because I am tucked behind the 18th Ave ridge or just that their repeater was over in bremerton. King, Kiro, Komo and others were mostly using Seattle repeaters.
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 12:02 am
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I built my own out of coat hangers, it was easy as hell and it works great. I lived in Cap Hill for 3 years and now Beacon Hill and get ALL of the stations clearly (the main and secondary of every network, including PBS, plus a stupid amount of religious and foreign channels.) I have never had any trouble getting Squawks games (perfect HD.) The only thing you need to buy is the balun ($5.)
Just google coat hanger hdtv antenna instructions, it should look like this when you're done (but with less quiksilver shirt guy):
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An externally mounted Yagi-style antenna would likely be the most ideal solution for good reception. However, if you can't mount externally and/or don't want to spend that kind of cash, there are some amplified solutions that are more directional, but can easily fit on a bookshelf.
When it comes to picture quality, you really can't get a better picture than the OTA broadcast, because it's transmitted without any kind of compression. Full 1080 signal, which if you have good reception you should get little to no artifacting. All cable companies, because they are cheap and want to cram as many channels as possible into their lineups (so that you can have 300 shopping channels and 100 music channels, etc.), and the only way to do that is to reduce the individual signal bandwidth for each channel (and then divide that channel up into the .1, .2, etc. sub-channels).
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