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Old 06-22-2011, 03:02 PM
 
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What has been people's experiences w/ OTA TV channel reception in NOVA? I'm looking to get rid of the high cable bills. I asked about VOIP recently and now I'm looking into how to transition to OTA TV and Netflix style entertainment.

Does anyone have any experience w/ reception and with latest generation antenna's such as this from Amazon?

Amazon.com: RCA ANT1650 Flat Digital Amplified Indoor TV Antenna: Electronics

Thanks in advance!
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Old 06-22-2011, 03:38 PM
 
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My observations:

- most important is how strong signal station is broadcasting (I think will down economy some stations may be transmitted bare minimum spec signal, so reception could be spotty even though you are close to transmitters)
- how sensitive the tuner chip in tv box is
- third most important is antenna. Silver Sensor is reference design for indoor reception say 20 miles or less. Further out may need something such as Terrestrial Digital DB-2 / DB-4 or if you can put up antenna on roof one of those old large tv roof antennas will work well.
- amplification doesn't mean much if you can't pull in good signal to start (1, 2, 3 above)
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Old 06-22-2011, 06:56 PM
 
Location: Town of Herndon/DC Metro
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Horrible!
I live in an apt in Merrifield.
I bought the converter and a Philips indoor antenna. After many adjustments/moving it around the apt. (I have no outdoor access) I get 5 channels:
Al Jazeera
Ski channel
24 hour France
NBC Plus(which is basically the weather radar on 24/7)
NBC regular channel 4

So I have a basic package with Cox. Its 20 bucks a month. I Get abc/nbc/fox/cbs/wgn/pbs; all local goverment cable (FFX school Channel/City-of-Falls-Church channel, etc..)Speed/bravo/QVC/TBS and a couple Spanish channels I watch. I had this same basic channel pack in SoCal as we had no reception in the nearby mountains.

I'm very mad because not only did I want OTA (especially PBS, which has 4 digital channels) but I used to listen to TV on the radio and when it went from analog to digital I lost that too.

!
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