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Does anyone else who DOES NOT pay for any type of cable TV service no longer have over the air channels?
I don't pay for cable but received a few local channels (news, UNC-TV, that kind of thing) up until July 1st, 2015. My TV is pretty new, bought within the last year, so I don't think the digital/analog issue is at play here. I live in Cary. I have run a channel scan and it found 0 channels, it used to find 17 channels.
I understand if there is no solution, I was getting something I wasn't paying for anyway so can't complain when it goes away. I just wondered if anyone else had had this problem or knew of anything I could do to fix it, other than buying a cable package. I'm not home enough to justify paying for cable but I like to leave the news on or something for some background noise sometimes.
Thanks!
Yes!! same thing with us but.......
We do not have cable any more but instead, last year installed an HD antenna in our attic as well subscribe to both Netflix and Amazon Prime. Antenna wise, we have always been able to get ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS plus several other stations (WE, ION, GRIT etc).
On July 1st, we were not able to get in anything!! Yup, we rebooted, did the autoprogramming and the only station we could get was channel 11.1 (ABC?). Anyway, my husband finally went up into the attic, disconnected and reconnected our antenna and VOILA! All stations are back!
You need to get an Amazon firestick programmed with kodi for free streaming which also includes ustvnow. Check on Craigslist ... Usually about $70-80. And also buy a $20 antenna from target. This is what I use and I have endless amount of entertainment anytime I want it.
In Chapel Hill right when they converted to digital TV I could only get the PBS stations, it sucks. If you own a home however, you can hook up one of those big antennas like people had in the 50's and likely get more.
I have an antenna, did the research on the right color for my location, tested different areas around the exterior of the house for best signal, and mounted it there. It made fuzzy stations clearer and gave more stations (albeit a bit fuzzy) than I had previously.
Are the stations I get from the antenna now encrypted?
Something doesn't make sense. OTA channels are transmitted digitally. Either you get them, or you don't, or they go in and out, but there is no "fuzzy" (that would be analog). Maybe the squirrel/wiring issue?, but "fuzzy" is not a reception issue with Digital signals....
Yep, fuzziness and snow are things of the past. Now weak channels pixellate.
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