Are you able to get over-the-air broadcast TV with an antenna?
Nightfox

I recently dumped my cable, was getting way to expensive for the amount of time i watched it. I bought a antenna to pick up local stations. I get about 30 stations but it all depends on where you live and if you have a lot of trees and buildings blocking your signal. Also I use a bunch of the free streaming services like Pluto, Roku TV and Plex Tv. Plenty of decent stuff on there to make me happy.

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By: Cozmo to Nightfox on Sat Jan 18 2025 11:17 am

I recently dumped my cable, was getting way to expensive for the amount of time i watched it. I bought a antenna to pick up local stations. I get about 30 stations but it all depends on where you live and if you have a lot of trees and buildings blocking your signal.

A couple years ago, I heard there's a newer broadcast standard, ATSC 3.0, which has been rolling out in the US. A couple of the main goals are to allow over-the-air TV broadcasts in 4K and improvements to the signal to allow better reception in places that have a lot of trees & buildings & such. It looks like the main networks in my area broadcast in both ATSC 3.0 and the older standard; my HDHomerun Flex 4K tuner is able to pick up the ATSC 3.0 broadcasts and it seems like they do tend to get better reception for me. I often like to watch Jeopardy (on ABC), and for some reason I tend to have trouble getting the regular ABC broadcast station, but ABC's ATSC 3.0 channel tends to come in fairly well for me.

Also I use a bunch of the
free streaming services like Pluto, Roku TV and Plex Tv. Plenty of decent stuff on there to make me happy.

I have a few of those too - Plex TV, Roku, Pluto, and I recently signed up for Tubi. I don't use them very often, but perhaps I should use them more, as there's lots of stuff to watch with those. I probably watch enough TV as it is though..

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I currently use Youtube TV as my primary service, but they are raising prices.So wondering what others are using. I selected them years ago for the live tv, and local channels (abc,nbc,cbs).Secondary services I use are: netflix, prime videoDropped some others to save money, but of
course they are coming out with new stuff I want to see :-( ---

I do watch a lot of Youtube and subscribe to YT premium - not the TV part, just premium YT w/o ads.

I used to get Netflix, and still buy a month here and there when some series or show I want to watch comes out - I'll use that month to binge download anything I'm interested in and cancel.

For everything else, I rely on my .torrent stack. Its made up of several applications;
a VPN, qBitTorrent, Jellyfin, Jellyseerr, Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.

Those are a VPN, .torrent downloader, Streaming App, Library Scanner/Suggests movies/TV, .torrent Searcher, Movie Downloader, TV Downloader, Mustic Downloader and a Home Screen.

A hoy, matey!



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Hello paulie420!

[...] Jellyseerr, Prowlarr, Radarr,
Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.

Are those named in homage to things piratey?


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[...] Jellyseerr, Prowlarr, Radarr,
Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.

Are those named in homage to things piratey?

Dude - I never thought of that, but I sure hope so... hmmmm.
Gonna research that a bit!



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By: Cozmo to Nightfox on Sat Jan 18 2025 11:17 am

Are you able to get over-the-air broadcast TV with an antenna?
Nightfox

I recently dumped my cable, was getting way to expensive for the amount of time i watched it. I bought a antenna to pick up local stations. I get about 30 stations but it all depends on where you live and if you have a lot of trees and buildings blocking your signal. Also I use a bunch of the free streaming services like Pluto, Roku TV and Plex Tv. Plenty of decent stuff on there to make me happy.

indoor antennas failed for me. Maybe I should try external, i just cannot climb under the house to run cable; and wife would have a "cow" if she saw or found out I climbed the tower. LOL

I probably need to look at using some of the free services. Only thing is, you cannot pause them (so back to oldtime tv), I love DVR. That's the other reason I went to youtube tv for their DVR and easy of use. I don't have to watch it when it comes on, but on my schedule.

I have all three of the services you mention; but don't use them reguarlly.

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Nightfox wrote to Cozmo <=-

I have a few of those too - Plex TV, Roku, Pluto, and I recently signed
up for Tubi. I don't use them very often, but perhaps I should use
them more, as there's lots of stuff to watch with those. I probably
watch enough TV as it is though..

If Roku supported IPTV, I'd stick with IPTV for terrestrial channels,
pick one streaming service and explore all of the free/ad supported
content on Roku - there's a ton of it.

Amazon Fire sticks support IPTV, but I don't know about their other
channels.

If I ever need to cut my expenses way back, that's where I'd start.



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paulie420 wrote to Amessyroom <=-

For everything else, I rely on my .torrent stack. Its made up of
several applications; a VPN, qBitTorrent, Jellyfin, Jellyseerr,
Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.

I need to check out the Arrs - I'm doing it all manually now, finding
out what I want to see, then going to tracker sites. Once the content is
here, I'm using DLNA to stream to Roku devices.



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For everything else, I rely on my .torrent stack. Its made up of several applications; a VPN, qBitTorrent, Jellyfin, Jellyseerr, Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.

I need to check out the Arrs - I'm doing it all manually now, finding
out what I want to see, then going to tracker sites. Once the content is here, I'm using DLNA to stream to Roku devices.

Many times I prefer searching w/ prowlarr and not the other automated arr searchers.

However, I do make use of many of them..



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OTA is compressed video as well, but uses more bandwidth per channel and
thus supports real-time encoding at higher (perceived) fidelity. I think

Did that become true with the conversion to digital, or was it even true
before that?


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I recently dumped my cable, was getting way to expensive for the amount of time i watched it. I bought a antenna to pick up local stations. I get about 30 stations but it all depends on where you live and if you have a lot of trees and buildings blocking your signal. Also I use a bunch of the free streaming services like Pluto, Roku TV and Plex Tv. Plenty of decent stuff on there to make me happy.

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Good for you. We never had cabletv out here in the sticks, but 2 years ago we did get cable available and we just went with internet only. We went from 8 mbps down to 400 mbps. It is so nice. We still only use digital antenna and get 40 channels on the mountain here. Sometimes now we watch freevee for judge Judy or old tv shows. Love ME tv. My brother speaks highly of Pluto, we will try it.
Have a good day cozmo.

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Good for you. We never had cabletv out here in the sticks, but 2 years
ago we did get cable available and we just went with internet only. We went from 8 mbps down to 400 mbps. It is so nice. We still only use digital antenna and get 40 channels on the mountain here. Sometimes now
we watch freevee for judge Judy or old tv shows. Love ME tv. My brother speaks highly of Pluto, we will try it.
Have a good day cozmo.

Pluto and roku TV are pretty decent. Cable was more of a convienance more than anything but, definitely not worth the price. I love Crime TV on my local OTA channels.

Have a good one!

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By: Cozmo to Rixter on Sat Feb 22 2025 11:00 am

Good for you. We never had cabletv out here in the sticks, but 2 years ago we did get cable available and we just went with internet only. We went from 8 mbps down to 400 mbps. It is so nice. We still only use digital antenna and get 40 channels on the mountain here. Sometimes now > Ri> we watch freevee for judge Judy or old tv shows. Love ME tv. My brother > Ri> speaks highly of Pluto, we will try it.
Have a good day cozmo.

Pluto and roku TV are pretty decent. Cable was more of a convienance more th > anything but, definitely not worth the price. I love Crime TV on my local OT > channels.

Have a good one!

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We use Pluto because it came with the LG TV we bought. We had the TV for a yearbefore we connected it to the internet. LOL. Pluto seems easy to understand. Itreminds me of a kind of tuner. Lots of good one show only channels. I remember
they had a Star Trek Classic channel that ran the old Star Trek Shows 24/7 and we left it there for weeks. That is kind of nice.
Have a great weekend Cozmo!
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By: Cozmo to Nightfox on Sat Jan 18 2025 11:17 am

Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming is much more wholesome. Where I live now, they are just starting to run cable lines up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast. Especially now that I am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.
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Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming
is much more wholesome. Where I live now, they are just starting to run cable lines up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except
maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast. Especially now that I am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.

I don't think Cable is worth the price anymore at least for me. There are so many free options out there to use. Hopefully the lines will reach you soon and you'll be able to stream and use the free services without worring about data.

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Bogomips wrote to Cozmo <=-

Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming
is much more wholesome.

I was hoping to get local news and PBS on an indoor HDTV antenna, but
all I get was CBS, lots of religious and Spanish-language programming,
and some interesting retro sitcom channels.

With a Roku, the antenna input is called "live TV" and includes a ton
of streaming channels. If I was on a serious budget, I could get by
watching free streaming with basic internet service quite well.

Where I live now, they are just starting to run
cable lines up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except
maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast.
Especially now that I am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.

300-600 megabits/second and a 1.2 terabyte/month would be an adjustment
from hotspot internet...

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By: Cozmo to Bogomips on Wed Feb 26 2025 08:31 am

Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming is much more wholesome. Where I live now, they are just starting to run cable
lines
up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except
maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast. Especially now that
I
am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.

I don't think Cable is worth the price anymore at least for me. There are so many free
options out there to use. Hopefully the lines will reach you soon and you'll be able
to
stream and use the free services without worring about data.

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Also, with cable a portion of your bill is automatically given to certain networks, even if you don't watch them or agree with their progamming.

I think my wife will be more interested in all the streaming. I'm used to the small selection of old shows and pbs that are offered OTA.
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By: poindexter FORTRAN to Bogomips on Wed Feb 26 2025 06:06 am

Bogomips wrote to Cozmo <=-

Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming is much more wholesome.

I was hoping to get local news and PBS on an indoor HDTV antenna, but
all I get was CBS, lots of religious and Spanish-language programming,
and some interesting retro sitcom channels.

Sometimes I find that I have to scan for channels a few times.

With a Roku, the antenna input is called "live TV" and includes a ton
of streaming channels. If I was on a serious budget, I could get by
watching free streaming with basic internet service quite well.

You had me at "serious budget". Day after Christmas I was in the hospital and will not
longer be working. I have Disability Insurance through work for the next 4 years. That should get me to Full Retirement age.

It's just another speed bump down the highway of life.

Where I live now, they are just starting to run
cable lines up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast. Especially now that I am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.

300-600 megabits/second and a 1.2 terabyte/month would be an adjustment
from hotspot internet...

Suprisingly, I would get by with the hotspot except it ran out too fast this month with all the paperwork i've been having to download. So now I'm using my wifes, and it's in the other room and I'm atleast able to get on Vert with two bars

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By: Bogomips to Cozmo on Wed Feb 26 2025 01:55 pm

Also, with cable a portion of your bill is automatically given to certain networks, even if you don't watch them or agree with their progamming.

The "Sports Programming Fee" is the worst - apparently Comcast charges this even if you don't have a sports package.

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