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I have a converter box as well as a cheap pair of rabbit ears, which are on top of my TV and only about 3-4 feet from the nearest window.
My problem is that some of the LA TV stations which should come in rather easily don't from time to time, which means I have to run a scan to reprogram them into the converter box, and miss around 5-7 minutes of programming.
i also get a lot of choppy video from several TV stations, and having to move the antenna constantly to stop the TV images from freezing is also really aggravating.
Should I buy a more expensive antenna, and what did you folks who also ditched your cable or satellite TV wind up spending on your antenna?
I ditched cable 2 years ago and I don't miss it. Well, I live in corporate apartments now because of my husbands relocation to a new city and they are paying for our cable. All I do is flip through channels. I cant find anything interesting.Before we came here 3 weeks ago we had rabbit ear antennas at our old apartment. We had the cheap antennas and switched to the more expensive once but that made no difference really.My husband insisted we should switch but in the end we got the same channels. But we get at least 4 solid channels with few interruptions but the rest are pretty bad.
We do subscribe to Netflix for 8 bucks per month.
Los Angeles has areas with hills and that can block signals.
I would suggest calling the specific TV stations and tell them your specific location, ask what kind of antenna to get, how high up it should be mounted, and if you need a TV signal amplifier. Also what direction to point the antenna.
They may be able to refer you to a web site with that information for LA. Or a store which has maps and so forth for where to point antennas.
You can also get "Free-to-Air" satellite TV, but you need to be sort of a rocket scientist to aim those dish antennas at satellites 25,000 miles away in space, then set up the frequencies in the receivers. But here is info on that... Free-to-air - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When they stopped high-power TV broadcast, everyone in our town lost signal. Some shifted to paying for satellite dishes, some did not.
Websites that show where they think the low-power TV broadcast signals should be reaching, show our town as getting signal. Yet nobody can. We tried. We could not get signal.
I don't have cable and the TV antenna I bought doesn't work very well. I usually just watch TV shows the day after they air over the internet on hulu.com.
First go here to see what channels are available and if you have mostly UHF signals or both UHF & VHF. If there is anyway of hooking up an antenna on a roof gable or the side of a building do that. Here is one I used and got good results. Comes with bracket. Very easy install.
When they stopped high-power TV broadcast, everyone in our town lost signal. Some shifted to paying for satellite dishes, some did not.
Websites that show where they think the low-power TV broadcast signals should be reaching, show our town as getting signal. Yet nobody can. We tried. We could not get signal.
I dumped cable/satellite a couple years ago and decided to get a digital antenna. I live in the city so it should be no big deal. Wrong. I bought several digital antennas and I can get no local channels at all. So I just did without.
I recently got satellite back and I've been having fun watching TV again. But I got a really good deal. If it goes up in price, it will be gone.
Check antennaweb.org which will tell you what kind of antenna you need in order to get which stations. Having an antenna OUTSIDE the window will help a lot.
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