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Don't do this. You can get a tuner and a little PC to get HDTV over the air with no accounts or ongoing costs.
You can do it for less than you would spend on a single year of a similar cable package.
HDHomeRun, a linux PC, and Jellyfin and you're good to go.
I agree with not doing it but suggesting OTA as a realistic replacement for the vast majority of viewers is...... not rooted in reality.
I for one can't even get a channel's signal in my rural area. I'd have to switch to listening to HAM radio operators for my fun time.
Welcome to 1950 again... except broadcast channels are a small portion of modern content. You're not getting anything offered through the cable/satellite channels, or any of the streaming services which increasingly have nothing to do with broadcast companies.
Looks like that only gets you public channels though?
I live in a major metro in the US. I get something like 100+ digital HD channels. Most of it I have never looked at to know what it is. I get the major broadcast networks, which means I can see most sports.
For me, when I bought the antenna, tuner and pc, there wasn't wild price gouging, so I was done for < $500, a one-time cost that netted me essentially a broadcast HDTV DVR setup. The only ongoing cost is $35 a year for guide data if you want to be able to schedule recordings.
YMMV.
YMMV indeed. There's 8 total here. One is in french. One is dedicated to Christian slopganda.
Except only 3 actually reach my house. Of them I only like CBC. That's it.
Lol I live in a very rural area. Would not get anywhere close to 100 channels based on what I checked. Glad the set up works for you though. Now a days, people are way more spoiled by variety and on demand viewing as well to switch to that instead of paid or unpaid streaming.
I mean ... I didn't disconnect my internet.
If you want a project, you could check if your TV already has an antenna input (usually a coax input) and grab a $40 indoor HDTV antenna - if it looked interesting you could always invest more for a roof antenna and/or stuff for doing DVR with it.
You can get a tuner and a little PC to get HDTV over the air
but TV sucks, 80% ads for drugs.
Sure, that's what the DVR bit on the pc is for. 👍
Won't be long until someone buys one of these devices and discovers their credit cards and identity being used in Hong Kong.
Or a bunch of them are involved in a botnet.
Meh, maybe. I paid cash for mine, then set up its own network connection to monitor. After turning it off there was some traffic, but after unplugging it there was none. So, I plug it in to use, then unplug. And it's not on a network with any other devices, so, whatever. $200 and I get free everything for 2 years; just finished s2 of fallout last night.
I went from content to paying for various streaming services to cancelling them all and going fully back to torrents and self hosting.
Greedy assholes couldn't be content with most of the money, they had to have all the money and put in crappy AI.
But why would you want to watch ad-infested flow tv?