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I tried doing an OTA amplified antenna, I can't get any stations. So it's not worth it to me to cancel cable at this point in time.
You can check out Mohu's site for coverage even if you don't have one of their antennas. Hope this link works, I found it to be accurate for the leaf 50 for my address: TV For Free - Get Free HDTV with an Antenna - MOHU
I tried doing an OTA amplified antenna, I can't get any stations. So it's not worth it to me to cancel cable at this point in time.
Indoor or outdoor? The indoor ones didn't work for me either - too many trees and bad geography. I plan to give an outdoor one a try in the fall as a precursor to dropping cable.
My indoor antennas worked better than the larger outdoor ones I tried.
With the return policies at Target/Best Buy/etc. just buy some and try them out. That is what I did.
I've tried the Mohu and several others indoors and got very poor results on both floors of my house. I actually want more of a whole house solution - professional installation, outlets in multiple rooms, etc. If I'm going to cut the cable, I'm going to do it in style.
I've tried the Mohu and several others indoors and got very poor results on both floors of my house. I actually want more of a whole house solution - professional installation, outlets in multiple rooms, etc. If I'm going to cut the cable, I'm going to do it in style.
You can run it through your existing coax outlets however you can't run internet on them as well.
What most people do in your situation is run the cable internet (assuming you have TWC) into the house on a dedicated line to the cable modem.
Then use the outside splitter box to run the antenna feed into. However you will need an amp, possibly several, as each time the signal is split you lose half of it.
This actually worked with my house, I tried an indoor amplified antenna run directly into my box outside and plugged the TV into the wall outlet. Worked on all but one channel. I could've pursued it further but decided for the ease and simplicity of using a slim line antenna on each TV, I'm just going that route.
I've tried the Mohu and several others indoors and got very poor results on both floors of my house. I actually want more of a whole house solution - professional installation, outlets in multiple rooms, etc. If I'm going to cut the cable, I'm going to do it in style.
If you've already had cable at some point in the past (or your house has had it), then you might have outlets in many of the rooms you want. Cable outlets existed already in my older home. Several years ago I had an external VHF/UHF antenna (rated up to 80 miles) installed on the existing bracket & arm where my DirecTV dish used to be. The guy who installed it did the various tests to ensure signal strength and proper direction. A pre-amp was added and it's been a welcome replacement. It's a 'whole house' solution, although I don't have outlets in every room, but they happen to be where I needed them, so that worked out well.
I haven't paid for cable TV since 2009. It was hard at first, but after a few months I realized that I was only watching certain shows on TV to fill time. I'm strictly Netflix and Amazon Prime streaming now and it's better in all ways. I can watch what I want, when I want to. No commercials, no worries about prices going up.
Every time I watch TV in a hotel, I realize how much of a waste of time commercials and most shows are.
I haven't paid for cable TV since 2009. It was hard at first, but after a few months I realized that I was only watching certain shows on TV to fill time. I'm strictly Netflix and Amazon Prime streaming now and it's better in all ways. I can watch what I want, when I want to. No commercials, no worries about prices going up.
Every time I watch TV in a hotel, I realize how much of a waste of time commercials and most shows are.
Same here, and to my post in the other thread I referenced a page or two back.
Time, and the whole dumbed-downness of all that noise.
Cut the cord when I moved onto a boat in Wilmington. Other than local news and occasional Jimmy Fallon, I stream shows via wifi and never missed cable since. I thought I would.
My indoor antennas worked better than the larger outdoor ones I tried.
With the return policies at Target/Best Buy/etc. just buy some and try them out. That is what I did.
That's what I need to do at the beach. What worked in Raleigh didn't work at the beach. I need to try some other antennas, and return them if they don't work. I don't miss cable in Raleigh. I want to get rid of it at the beach.
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