The only real way to get rid of montly fees for TV is to go with an antenna. First I started out with a trip to Radio Shack to get some helpful advice. I could tell the clerk was thinking about getting back to his mom's basement to resume his World of Warcraft game so he quickly led me to the small amplified rabbit ear antennas and said that was all I needed.
So I bring the antenna home and plug it in to the small lcd tv in the kitchen and find we get one local religious channel from a station 5 miles away. So I bring the antenna back and the same helpful clerk asks if I have a digital converter box for the tv I was hooking it up to. No, that would have been a good question to ask yesterday when I was here asking about hooking up an antenna to a tv.
The digital converter box is necessary because in June of 2009, all over the air broadcasting switched over to digital and if you have an older tv, you need a digital to analog tuner box. If you have a new tv, chances are it has a digital, ATSC, tuner and no converter is necessatry
So I buy a pricey digital converter box for $60 and bring it home. I find that I get most of the local stations except Fox and PBS but I have to move the ears around to get all of them. My wife is also not enamoured with the four foot antennas sitting on the kitchen counter. This obviously is not a solution to buy a set of rabbit ears for each of the 4 tv's in the house. Also, based on my experience with Radio Shack, I come to the conclusion it is an electronic store for those people that dont know how to find stuff and buy it online. The $60 converter box should have cost me $40 on Amazon or cheaper used on eBay.
Monday, January 25, 2010
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