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Media Daily News ^ | June 23, 2011 | Wayne Friedman

[netmilsmom]

We are 30 minutes North of Detroit.
We are on totally flat land. Bought a 100.00 antenna and our stations come in intermittently. Yet, the analog Canadian stations come in clear as a bell.

[Musketeer]

Where are the stats for radio media? I enjoy listening while I work. I'll take listening to a good radio program or a ball game over being a couch sloth any day. Its hard to believe people actually pay as much to watch TV as they would making a car payment.

[Beagle8U]

We get a bit of snow in Michigan too!

It works great. I get damn near everything available on a TV hooked to anything. All the premimum movie channels, local channels, sports channels, news channels, well, most everything but the 24/7 hard core porn channels, for about $90 a month. That includes HD and DVR.

[McGruff]

Competition is always good for the consumer. Monopolies are not.

[Beagle8U]

I’m in SW Jackson county and when broadcast TV went digital everything went dead. There are no TV stations within 40 miles of here, and it is woods and hills.

[dangerdoc]

“Digital tv screwed all that up, even if you wanted to go “over the air”.”

Yep, I now get over 30 different crystal clear channels over the air instead of 6 fuzzy ones.

[rhombus]

I get damn near everything available on a TV hooked to anything

What did you mean by "hooked to anything"?

[dangerdoc]

“We are on totally flat land. Bought a 100.00 antenna and our stations come in intermittently. Yet, the analog Canadian stations come in clear as a bell.”

Sounds like an antenna problem. Check the UHF portion of the antenna for a short. I live 60 miles from the digital broadcast antenna and can pull the signal in with a TV top bow tie antenna.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

FO vs. Cable

1) No congestion during peak-use times.

2) Greater bandwidth

3) More “on demand” choices.

4) Slightly better HD quality and vastly superior SD (less compression)

5) Tighter integration of PC, TV, Phone, and other LAN devices.

6) In my experience, FiOS customer service beats Comcast hands-down.

Downside is FO can be more expensive.

[Beagle8U]

Anything, meaning everything available on any and every cable, satalite, fiber optic phone line, etc etc.

I truly do have hundreds of channels with stuff the average person would watch. All the new movies, everything.

[Beagle8U]

I think I get something like 800 channels, about 300 or so of them are things I like to watch.

[blueunicorn6]

The cable companies won’t let you choose which networks you want or don’t want. I think a lot of networks would go under if cable subscribers could buy only the networks they want to watch.

[ELS]

ComCrap

I call them InCompetentCast.

[abb]

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/470205-FCC_Spokesperson_Net_Neutrality_Rules_Going_To_OMB_Very_Soon_.php

FCC Spokesperson: Net Neutrality Rules Going To OMB ‘Very Soon’ - Rules would likely take effect in October at earliest

[netmilsmom]

>>Check the UHF portion of the antenna for a short. I live 60 miles from the digital broadcast antenna and can pull the signal in with a TV top bow tie antenna.<<

Thanks! I’ll let the Hubby know.

[abb]

http://fasthorseinc.com/blog/2011/06/23/newspapers-should-get-out-of-the-opinion-business/
Newspapers Should Get Out of the Opinion Business

[Blagden Alley]

I’m in DC, and get all the digital stuff on a $45 antenna that I got at Amazon. Occasionally have to shift by a few degrees for weather problems, but in general rock solid for all local channels. I also get the weather channels the local NBC and CBS stations have, plus one retro channel and one sports channel, Universal Sports. If you like bicycle racing with good commentary, it’s great. Almost all of the other minor sports, too, such as gymnastics, volleyball and the full world ski tour and bobsledding besides.

$45. Once.

[netmilsmom]

>>I’m in SW Jackson county and when broadcast TV went digital everything went dead. There are no TV stations within 40 miles of here, and it is woods and hills.<<

I’m in Macomb. We used to get all the stations, clear as a bell, on the tv in the kitchen with a set of rabbit ears. Digital killed all of that.

[netmilsmom]

Not here. Our 100.00 antenna gets all the PBS and not much else.

We do get the Canadian stations though.

[Calvin Locke]

RE: Comcast.

Oh, and they changed the box configuration a month or so ago. Used
to be able to have the vcr or remote turn on the box just by IR'ing
the channel number, now have to leave the box on, used to be
able to program the box to shut off, can't do that any more, the
on-screen guide throws in ads as part of the scroll to encourage
you to click on them for say PPV, and a number of other
annoyances that I can't remember.