Some people report getting 50+ free channels over the air.
Posted on 12/10/2013 4:48:49 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
https://archive.org/details/classic_tv
http://www.tvland.com/full-episodes
http://www.youtube.com/channel/SBpcHF0FYOb_k (Fawlty Towers!)
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv-shows.htm (beware pop up ads)
http://www.nbc.com/classic-tv/
Check your freepmail-I linked to every episode.
I run mozilla with adblock and noscript so I avoid pop-up hell, that being said never download anything. If it doesn’t play right away run away. lol
Not really. The neighbor has an analog tv and when everything converted a few years ago, he got some sort of antenna that was supposed to bring in stations over the air. It didn’t work. For a while, here in the country, we could get one station that was 40-some miles away (don’t know the mileage as the crow flies) but it wasn’t long before they shut that tower down so now there’s nothing over the air. YMMV if you live in the city.
Was going to do it until I got Google Fiber. 1 gig up/down is $80 a month and the cable is only another $40. $5 a piece for each extra TV box and each one has a gigE port and also works as a repeater for your Wi-Fi network. Pray they come to your town.
Completely ditched. After full blown cable service, ditched the ad-filled over-compressed dreck for nothing but DVDs. 2 years later got an Apple TV for Netflix and iTunes. Only thing I miss is live breaking news video, which is rare.
Subsequently we dumped the sat since they ceased carrying our team and went to cable, which also didn't have our team but was cheaper. But cable here was so crummy we dumped that too, then moved to the boonies where there is nothing but a 3 Mbps wireless provider (unmeasured). I watch Netflix plus some Prime and Crackle. Sometimes get HD sometimes don't, but the bandwidth is about as good as the cable (i.e. their HD wasn't really HD, more like 480p or less).
“simply use a “Y” splitter on the wire”
They can tell. Might take them a while, but at some point you’ll see a business card from someone in “content security” taped to your door with a short handwritten note offering a great deal on TV service.
Trust me.
Your screen name is far more relevant than you realize.
They’ll find out. Trust me.
And the other end of the hose will probably have a locked terminator on it.
Just curious, outside of satellite, is there anything folks can do in real rural areas for an Internet connection nowadays?
I pretty much only read on the internet, but my worst problems have come from the Brit newspaper sites. And I got a really nasty ad pop up virus from somewhere. It took hubby like 3 trys to get rid of that.
Some people report getting 50+ free channels over the air.
Cellular, also referred to as an Aircard.
Hard to believe it’s almost 2014, outside of $atellite, there is still no reasonable, readily accessible Internet connection for the rural out there.
Thanks.
Use Linux, at least when you surf the web.
I converted my entire DVD collection to MP4, and use Plex to stream them to my ROKU.
Bflr
Thank you for the tip. I will check it out.
Similar.
I have taken many of my DVR recorded programs, removed the commercials and saved them to an NAS (wireless capable) 3 TB hard drive. The hard drive feeds through PLEX to Roku to widescreen TV.
I also have a WD HD Live box (Western Digital media streaming box).
It is surprising how much more continuity a TV program or movie has when it isn’t split up by commercials.
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