Cable Guy (Page 2): With hundreds of dollars worth of stuff on my roof, I might get three or four stations. I like both Internet TV and broadcast, so I'll have to see if I can find a...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

whitewolfowner wrote:

Jerry, cut the cable cord and rid yourself of the ... (show quote)

With hundreds of dollars worth of stuff on my roof, I might get three or four stations. I like both Internet TV and broadcast, so I'll have to see if I can find a way to get the shows I want without cable.

Fifty years ago, my 20' antenna was made by Channelmaster, a few miles from here. I don't want to go back to that!

JBruce Loc: Northern MN

Take heart Jerry, one thing you can be certain of--it'll get worse before it gets better. John

whitewolfowner

jerryc41 wrote:

With hundreds of dollars worth of stuff on my roof, I might get three or four stations. I like both Internet TV and broadcast, so I'll have to see if I can find a way to get the shows I want without cable.

Fifty years ago, my 20' antenna was made by Channelmaster, a few miles from here. I don't want to go back to that!

Channel master is the major player in over the air TV reception. They have an abundance of products. If where you live, you can only get three or channels, it may not be the answer for you. If internet is your main source of TV reception, do you have a ROKU unit? They are the main player in that area and check out sling TV; many cable channels for $20 a month with add ons too. The channel master DVR+ also brings a lot of things on the internet including Sling TV and many free internet channels too.

SHUTERED Loc: SO. CAL.

I wish I still had Verizon. They sold out to an outfit from the East coast named Frontier about 1 1/2 years ago. What a bunch of incompetents. They took what had been a flawless system out here on the left coast and trashed

it. Switch? Everything else is worse out here. Rumor is that they are now having financial difficulties. Tch tch. Wonder how satellite might be?

rfmaude41 Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)

SHUTERED wrote:

I wish I still had Verizon. They sold out to an outfit from the East coast named Frontier about 1 1/2 years ago. What a bunch of incompetents. They took what had been a flawless system out here on the left coast and trashed

it. Switch? Everything else is worse out here. Rumor is that they are now having financial difficulties. Tch tch. Wonder how satellite might be?

Frontier is NOT east coast, base here in the Dallas suburbs.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

Jerry, I bet it is beautiful living in the Catskill Mountains, peaceful and quiet with not a lot of people or traffic around. The downside of living in the boondocks is that you have to give up a lot of modern conveniences that aren't available in the boonies. Conveniences like TV and high-speed internet. My daughter and her family live out in the country in rural Oklahoma. When they need a loaf of bread or quart of milk it is a 20 minute drive to the nearest town, which has a convenience store/gas station. No real grocery store or much of anything else. They can forget about TV except via satellite dish and get on the internet by using their smart phones.

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

jerryc41 wrote:

I live about 100 miles north of NYC. When I moved here fifty years ago, we had a twenty-foot tower on our roof with a twenty-foot antenna, with a rotor and amplifier on top of that. We got three or four stations, depending on conditions.

Those were analog signals. The same set up would perform better with digital transmissions. I'd try the indoor antenna first- buy from someplace like Amazon with a good return policy.

chrisscholbe Loc: Kansas City, MO

jerryc41 wrote:

I can understand how they could make a comedy movi... (show quote)

I don't own A TV.

I don't have ANY of these problems. *S*

SHUTERED Loc: SO. CAL.

rfmaude41 wrote:

Frontier is NOT east coast, base here in the Dallas suburbs.

I appreciate the correction and my only additional comment is I wish they had stayed there!

Diogenes

Is anyone familiar with TickboxTV. I received an email from them advertising their box that receives anything that is in the cloud. For a one-time charge of $90, you buy the unit and stream whatever you want, TV, movies, etc. No additional or monthly charges.