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You can try an HD antenna. Depending on where you are, you will be able to pick up signals from either NYC or Philly I would think. If you research it, there is a website that will ask you for your address and it will show you direction of where the closest HD signals are coming from. Good luck!
You can try an HD antenna. Depending on where you are, you will be able to pick up signals from either NYC or Philly I would think. If you research it, there is a website that will ask you for your address and it will show you direction of where the closest HD signals are coming from. Good luck!
I believe this is the website you are referring to: AntennaWeb - Home
Just put in your address and it will give you an idea of what TV channels you should be able to receive with an antenna.
It always amazes me how everyone forgot, TV is STILL in the air FREE. The way it is supposed to be.
About a month or two ago I brought a small DTV antenna to a kids home in Plainfield, we set it up and got about 53 channels in digital TV free.
Start by going to tvfool.com where you can plug in your location and approximate height and they will give you results of what you are supposed to receive free.
This is the way TV was for decaades and still is, Broadcasters spent billions of $$ to build new TV plants when the transition happened from analog to digital, yet I think only about 10% of viewers pay nothing for their TV while many others have someone else catching the signal for them and bringing it to them with a monthly bill.
Other than maybe 1 channel we watch Tv that is available free anyway yet even we still pay a monthly bill at one of my houses. The other one has always been free tv.
BTW Aereo is a new company that does the same, picks up FREE TV and gives it to YOU with a BILL.
Hmmm. Broadcasters, TV stations are suing them but that is just a big lawyer court thing.
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It always amazes me how everyone forgot, TV is STILL in the air FREE. The way it is supposed to be.
Unless you live on the side of a valley like me I researched the crap out of OTA and realized that even with tandem "death ray" (basically really large UHF and VHF units) antennas, NYC TV would still be a crapshoot due to 2 edge diffraction issues. Philly TV would be an easier get (straight shot down the Delaware Valley) but we're NY sports fans, watch NY news, and since our favorite channels are Animal Planet, Discovery, History, and National Geographic (no internet option for those) anyway, I gave up. Instead we got Dish Network, ditched home phone service for an Ooma box, and are getting by on the slowest DSL package, which, despite what others had told us, still allows us to stream HD movies. At $118 a month I figure I'm getting a pretty reasonable deal. It all depends on what you want to watch. If you like sports and specialty channels, the OTA/internet combo is going to be hard to get used to.
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I researched the crap out of OTA and realized that even with tandem "death ray" (basically really large UHF and VHF units) antennas, NYC TV would still be a crapshoot due to 2 edge diffraction issues. Philly TV would be an easier get (straight shot down the Delaware Valley) but we're NY sports fans, watch NY news, and since our favorite channels are Animal Planet, Discovery, History, and National Geographic (no internet option for those) anyway, I gave up. Instead we got Dish Network, ditched home phone service for an Ooma box, and are getting by on the slowest DSL package, which, despite what others had told us, still allows us to stream HD movies. At $118 a month I figure I'm getting a pretty reasonable deal. It all depends on what you want to watch. If you like sports and specialty channels, the OTA/internet combo is going to be hard to get used to.
