09-03-2011, 04:56 PM
We have been without cable TV for many years. Overpriced with poor customer service. I hate essentially unregulated monopolies.
With the advent of digital TV we finally got the antenna I'd bought 20 something years ago put up on the roof and run to the cable outlets in our house. (We were indeed using rabbit ears in a couple of locations before that.) We get something like 25 OTA channels. Supplemented by Netflix on a Wii, and (when I get ethernet re-run) Amazon streaming from my son's Blu-ray player.
As with AA, picture quality on HD broadcasts is terrific, probably better than cable as there is less compression. We don't have a DVR, and rarely miss having one. It's interesting to watch sports like football where the broadcaster has a mix of HD and SD cameras. You can really tell which they are using.
But we are very light TV watchers, and I can see how some people really would want to keep access to some of the cable-only channels.
Good luck.
- Winston
With the advent of digital TV we finally got the antenna I'd bought 20 something years ago put up on the roof and run to the cable outlets in our house. (We were indeed using rabbit ears in a couple of locations before that.) We get something like 25 OTA channels. Supplemented by Netflix on a Wii, and (when I get ethernet re-run) Amazon streaming from my son's Blu-ray player.
As with AA, picture quality on HD broadcasts is terrific, probably better than cable as there is less compression. We don't have a DVR, and rarely miss having one. It's interesting to watch sports like football where the broadcaster has a mix of HD and SD cameras. You can really tell which they are using.
But we are very light TV watchers, and I can see how some people really would want to keep access to some of the cable-only channels.
Good luck.
- Winston