With Chromecast (or something similar to connect your computer to TV), and a decent Antenna, you do not really need anything else. Plus, most of the things that we watch are on-demand anyway - we don't have patience to sit through commercials for 1 hour to watch 20 minutes of a Sci-Fi episode.
The TV antenna is making a comeback
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Re: The TV antenna is making a comeback
#22I am always stunned of how USA are both forerunners of new technologies, and very backward as well... for credit cards with chip, digital television, gsm diffusion, etc etc... Also, in most of United States you can not get an european level ADSL.
IIRC the DVB-T standard took a very long time (multiple decades) to adopt and deploy.
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#23Lord knows why. It's basically a tool to pick up non-stop advertising. If you're lucky, there's some horrible Big Bang Theory rerun displayed in one quadrant of the video signal, sped up to 210% normal framerate, so they can fit more commercials in. Plex is the new tv antenna.
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#24OTA TV is $250 per year in the UK, before equipment. If you get satellite / cable you still have to pay. If you watch live on computer, pay up.
Heh, they used to drive around in the UK with an EM locator, looking for unlicensed TV's to tax. Craziness.
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#25What I'd like is an easy, cheap DVR solution for OTA. Mostly I'd just like to be able to pause and rewind live TV. After cutting the cord, it's like living in the 80s again shouting at family members to be quiet when you need to hear something.
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#26OTA TV is $250 per year in the UK, before equipment. If you get satellite / cable you still have to pay. If you watch live on computer, pay up.
assuming you are referring to the license fee: GBP145.50 is closer to $225 is it not?
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#27I am always stunned of how USA are both forerunners of new technologies, and very backward as well... for credit cards with chip, digital television, gsm diffusion, etc etc... Also, in most of United States you can not get an european level ADSL.
The US is very, very big, and very, very empty compared to Europe. Outside of the I-95 corridor on the East Coast, some islands of density in the midwest, and the coastal zone of California, Oregon, Washington, it's overwhelmingly rural or uninhabited.
This is the correct answer.
Old, but still relevant density map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_density#/media/File...
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#28In 2010 when I lived in the San Francisco I ordered my broadband from Comcast, but I didn't pay for the TV package. I added a splitter to the Comcast coax cable, then plugged one wire into the cable modem and the other into the back of my TV. Network TV channels for no extra cost.
I'm able to do this with Comcast, but the channels available look really bad on my tv.
Re: The TV antenna is making a comeback
#29What I'd like is an easy, cheap DVR solution for OTA. Mostly I'd just like to be able to pause and rewind live TV. After cutting the cord, it's like living in the 80s again shouting at family members to be quiet when you need to hear something.
Silicondust is releasing their DVR in the next month or two. I'm in on the kickstarter but not at the level that is currently testing. There are also dedicated devices for people less tech savvy.
https://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/hd-homerun-dv...
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#30I am always stunned of how USA are both forerunners of new technologies, and very backward as well... for credit cards with chip, digital television, gsm diffusion, etc etc... Also, in most of United States you can not get an european level ADSL.
Its when corporations get into the business and extra every cent from a technology. Expensive cable subscriptions, expensive cell subscriptions, etc... They all add up quickly.