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BONUS article for the ping list.
Over-the-Air TV Catches Second Wind, Aided by Web
It’s cool to have rabbit ears again.
Largely relegated to obscurity decades ago, old-fashioned television broadcasts—over the airwaves and not via cable or satellite—are enjoying an unexpected revival in the digital era.
With an increased array of online-video programming now drawing viewers’ attention, companies are starting to pitch consumers on complementing online video streamed from the Web with broadcast-TV signals as a way to save money on cable subscriptions.
If it gains traction, this trend could undercut part of the rationale for selling off TV spectrum in voluntary auctions, approved by Congress on Friday, aimed at freeing up spectrum for wireless broadband.
There are signs that consumers are responding. TV-antenna seller Richard Schneider of St. Louis says sales at his company are soaring. Mr. Schneider’s Antennas Direct sold 70,000 antennas in January, and he expects to double last year’s sales of about 600,000. That was up from 400,000 antennas in 2010.
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http://moneyland.time.com/2012/02/21/the-return-of-television-rabbit-ears/
I was part of a team that automated Samsung’s LCD manufacturing facility. They ran us through a brief course on how they are manufactured and yes, they do have a ‘lifetime’. The article explains it fairly well.
After much bally-hoo my rural area replaced their analog signals ...Where I received every available network NBC,ABC,CBS from locat afilliates with no problem. Then after purchasing three HDTV sets and setting them up. And for about alomost a year received their signals no-problema...Then they moved their antenna array. Today and for the past 3 years those HDTV sets are setting there collecting dust.. I rely on am radio
