SkavauEveryone is stealing TV. Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.
andyburkeDon'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 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.
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.
Schwim DandyI 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.
You can get a tuner and a little PC to get HDTV over the air
but TV sucks, 80% ads for drugs.