[tadtam]

OTA Information from facebook page -- The TeeVee Guyd:



KSNV-3 Las Vegas, a NBC affiliate with sub-channels for COZI and Antenna TV, is reminding viewers to rescan November 1st to continue receiving their signal. The station was recetly acquired by barrel bottom residing Sinclair, who already owns KVCW-33 and KVMY-21 in Las Vegas. KVCW airs CW on 33.1, THIS on 33.2, Cool on 33.3, while KVMY airs MNT on 21.1, Estrella on 21.2, and GET on 21.3. It is speculated that Sinclair will cut the rf2 transmitter for KSNV, and move those channels to KVCW and/or KVMY. This would lump nine channels onto just 2 transmitters, unless Sinclair cuts loose their affiliation with The Cool and Estrella, or some other scenario. This also gets the FCC off the back of Sinclair for attempting to have 3 major stations in one market. An e-mail to KSNV is yet to be answered. At this time, this is just speculation.

[mojavedxer]

I cut the cord over two years ago. I am using the Clearstream 2 http://www.amazon.com/Antennas-Direc...=clearstream+2 OTA antenna and modified the VHF element to receive channel 3 and its sub channels. For DVR I am currently using the Tablo http://www.amazon.com/Tablo-HDTV-Ant...keywords=tablo along with a 3 terabyte portable WD drive for DVR storage. There is a Roku 3 box Amazon.com: Roku 3 Streaming Media Player: Electronics attached to every TV in the house to access the DVR recordings along with Netlix, Amazon and Hulu. There is also a home built 24 terabyte NAS server in the house that stores my CD, DVD, Blu collection that is served up via Plex to the Roku boxes and tablets in the house.

[mojavedxer]

Originally Posted by northofnowhere

I'm doing the OTA with an indoor antenna. I'm getting everything available with decent reception except channel 3. For some reason I can't get that channel. Anyone else have that problem?

You may have to construct a separate low VHF antenna to receive channel 3. If your indoor antenna has telescopic rods attached. Try attaching some wire to the rods and pin the wire to your ceiling to help with reception.

[LVAllen]

Originally Posted by mojavedxer

You may have to construct a separate low VHF antenna to receive channel 3. If your indoor antenna has telescopic rods attached. Try attaching some wire to the rods and pin the wire to your ceiling to help with reception.

Or they could wait for another day, when KSNV will start broadcasting from Sinclair's frequencies, which won't include channel 2 (What KSNV currently broadcasts along). Instead, it will probably be channel 22 or 29, and a regular UHF antenna will work fine.

[MediocreButArrogant]

Originally Posted by LVAllen

Or they could wait for another day, when KSNV will start broadcasting from Sinclair's frequencies, which won't include channel 2 (What KSNV currently broadcasts along). Instead, it will probably be channel 22 or 29, and a regular UHF antenna will work fine.

It appears that NBC is now being broadcast from RF 22.1 (display channel 3.1) and from the old RF 2.1 (display channel 21.1). The move to a UHF frequency from low VHF should make reception of NBC much easier for everyone. Don't be surprised if your program guide is a complete mess for a few days.

Full details here: Las Vegas, NV - HDTV - Page 311 - AVS Forum and here: Las Vegas, NV - HDTV - Page 311 - AVS Forum

[mojavedxer]

Originally Posted by MediocreButArrogant

It appears that NBC is now being broadcast from RF 22.1 (display channel 3.1) and from the old RF 2.1 (display channel 21.1). The move to a UHF frequency from low VHF should make reception of NBC much easier for everyone. Don't be surprised if your program guide is a complete mess for a few days.

Full details here: Las Vegas, NV - HDTV - Page 311 - AVS Forum and here: Las Vegas, NV - HDTV - Page 311 - AVS Forum

This whole station move is a mess. Estrella and Get TV are now on RF 2.2 and 2.3 virtual 3.2 3.3. I thought the whole idea was to shut down the power hungry low VHF KSNV transmitter. I could care less about Estrella going away but I record a movie on occasion that Get TV is playing.

[BBMW]

I find it a little ironic that people call this cutting the cord, when it's fairly dependent on having a high speed internet connection (which usually comes with a cord.) It's also likely that the ISPs (not calling them cable companies) and video content providers are going to rearrange their offerings to recapture any profits they lose to this trend.

[mojavedxer]

Originally Posted by BBMW

I find it a little ironic that people call this cutting the cord, when it's fairly dependent on having a high speed internet connection (which usually comes with a cord.) It's also likely that the ISPs (not calling them cable companies) and video content providers are going to rearrange their offerings to recapture any profits they lose to this trend.

They already have. The high speed pricing is so over inflated by the cable companies and will keep going up as the cable tv subscription base keeps decreasing. Our only chance is more competition with high speed or get the cable companies to create a model where ala cart channel service is profitable. I can see where cutting the cord strategies wont be so cost effective a few years down the road but I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

[BBMW]

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That's the tough part, because it requires significant infrastructure (pulling cable/fiber to each user.) They've played with fixed point wireless (think Clear), but it isn't equivalent, and hasn't taken off.

The first company to pull wire to a user usually ends up owning the user, and can defend their turf, because the second guy would have to pay to pull the wire, and then get less than the incumbent is getting, because of the competition they're creating.

[wolf39us]

I cut the cord in 2009 and have never looked back!

My current setup is a Mini-ITX Media PC with Windows installed running Plex Media Center software hooked up via HDMI to my big screen TV.

I have a Western Digital 3TB (going to upgrade soon) drive running a modified version of Linux. That drive is running the following programs:

Sickbeard -- TV Shows
Couch Potato -- Movies
NZBget -- NZB downloader
Transmission -- Torrent Downloader

I have an automated script that takes downloads, renames the files, downloads artwork and Movie / TV info from IMDB moves them into a highly organized folder structure and pushes scan requests to Plex.

Netflix and Hulu and Youtube are all integrated into Plex.


It sounds complicated and in many respects is probably above those who aren't tech savy, but that's my setup and it's free aside from hardware costs (About $400)