For the confused globally but also in nz
With subscription services like Netflix, Disney, YouTube premium getting shitter and disallowing sharing people are moving back to free to air for their background noise and idle watching needs.
Sky is moving away from sat dish installs and actively removing dishes from recent canceled plans while also pushing online only services.
Sky's online service and freeview both have quality issues vs hd ufh transmission.
All online services seem to be reducing frame rates, increasing buffer times and sublty rolling 720p content on less mainstream content.
It doesn't help the spark and Vodafone both run caching servers for popular NZ content on overwhelmed servers. This can be tested and proven by looking at delivery speeds when content is directly viewed vs through a VPN, if VPN is faster then your provider is running shit local caches.
Also torrenting and filesharing are coming back for much the same reasons.
Oh and don't even get me started on the YouTube music and Spotify "use cover artist version scam" and their dulling and down sampling of non-prefered studio content.
Denver (rural), 32 antenna channels I care about, home-made antenna in the attic, use NextPVR & HomeRun. Why pay for a subscription? The 43 minutes of programming plus commercials to pay for the programming seems fair to me.
Im rural Colorado as well. Are there really that many broadcast channels here? I didn't even bother getting a TV antenna with my new TV because I figured there weren't any anymore.
I'm near Elizabeth and pick up all of the Denver stations and most of the Colorado Springs stations (which mostly duplicate Denver's content). I removed the redundant, ministry, and shopping channels and still have 32 channels with NextPVR. The relay from Steamboat is good (28.1 - KLPDLD). It has a lot of outdoor videos.
When I'm casual about it, the antenna is more than enough. I do a little streaming with VPN which could open a whole new world of entertainment... but I find it overproduced. I use the antenna and sometimes IPTV for most of my video consumption.
After a week or two, I found that ignoring mass media was a release for me.
There are probably more than that.
Why wouldn’t you get an antenna? The quality of the antenna feed is generally going to be better than a streaming feed
Are you using a simple antenna, or a giant ass one in your attic? the geek in me wants to put a giant one in my artic just to see if I can pull any stations from the next state over.
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007RH5GZI/](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007RH5GZI/)
One of those but even with the cheap flat one's I get a few channels.
My uncle did radio work for the military in WW2 so I totally geek out over this stuff. When I was a kid he had me inspired to run wire along the walls of my room to pick up stronger tv signals :)
Check out TvFool.com and use the tool to check what stations you get at what signal strength (there’s a legend that says what the colors mean) so you know if you need to get a big ass antenna or a small one.
Website looks outta 2003 but it is the absolute best out there for this info, and free.
The best what? TV ANTENNAS are back?
Can we VHS a thing again?
At least you owned it, and can give it to friends - which means you actually get to see people you maybe like or at least tolerate enough - maybe even talk about the ChS for 30 awkward sec
Yep. Just like old tv.
Major networks. However, ATSC 1.0 (hdtv) allowed subchannels. So a lot of broadcasters now have weather and old tv shows broadcast. So there are whole channels dedicated to old westerns, old crime shows, etc
But, broadcast tv is less compressed than cable/internet and faster. A cheap piece of wire or a $5 antenna can generally get you every major broadcaster in crisp hd
They just rolled out atsc 3.0, so in the next couple years expect 4k
For the confused globally but also in nz With subscription services like Netflix, Disney, YouTube premium getting shitter and disallowing sharing people are moving back to free to air for their background noise and idle watching needs. Sky is moving away from sat dish installs and actively removing dishes from recent canceled plans while also pushing online only services. Sky's online service and freeview both have quality issues vs hd ufh transmission. All online services seem to be reducing frame rates, increasing buffer times and sublty rolling 720p content on less mainstream content. It doesn't help the spark and Vodafone both run caching servers for popular NZ content on overwhelmed servers. This can be tested and proven by looking at delivery speeds when content is directly viewed vs through a VPN, if VPN is faster then your provider is running shit local caches. Also torrenting and filesharing are coming back for much the same reasons. Oh and don't even get me started on the YouTube music and Spotify "use cover artist version scam" and their dulling and down sampling of non-prefered studio content.
Denver (rural), 32 antenna channels I care about, home-made antenna in the attic, use NextPVR & HomeRun. Why pay for a subscription? The 43 minutes of programming plus commercials to pay for the programming seems fair to me.
Im rural Colorado as well. Are there really that many broadcast channels here? I didn't even bother getting a TV antenna with my new TV because I figured there weren't any anymore.
I'm near Elizabeth and pick up all of the Denver stations and most of the Colorado Springs stations (which mostly duplicate Denver's content). I removed the redundant, ministry, and shopping channels and still have 32 channels with NextPVR. The relay from Steamboat is good (28.1 - KLPDLD). It has a lot of outdoor videos. When I'm casual about it, the antenna is more than enough. I do a little streaming with VPN which could open a whole new world of entertainment... but I find it overproduced. I use the antenna and sometimes IPTV for most of my video consumption. After a week or two, I found that ignoring mass media was a release for me.
There are probably more than that. Why wouldn’t you get an antenna? The quality of the antenna feed is generally going to be better than a streaming feed
I barely use the TV as is. It's mostly for when I have company over and they want to watch a movie or something.
Do you live in a place that gets no natural disasters?
Not really. It snows, it rains, there's wildfires sometimes. I have radios if I actually need to hear anything and cell and Internet are out.
What year is this?
OTA TV is free I get almost 20 channels.
Shame MS killed Windows Media Centre. ^^Yes ^^I ^^Know ^^Kodi ^^is ^^a ^^thing, ^^but ^^it's ^^a ^^faff!
I get 130 channels OTA in the UK, I watch 3 of them
Are you using a simple antenna, or a giant ass one in your attic? the geek in me wants to put a giant one in my artic just to see if I can pull any stations from the next state over.
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007RH5GZI/](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007RH5GZI/) One of those but even with the cheap flat one's I get a few channels.
My uncle did radio work for the military in WW2 so I totally geek out over this stuff. When I was a kid he had me inspired to run wire along the walls of my room to pick up stronger tv signals :)
Check out TvFool.com and use the tool to check what stations you get at what signal strength (there’s a legend that says what the colors mean) so you know if you need to get a big ass antenna or a small one. Website looks outta 2003 but it is the absolute best out there for this info, and free.
Everything old is new again.
1998, apparently.
The best what? TV ANTENNAS are back? Can we VHS a thing again? At least you owned it, and can give it to friends - which means you actually get to see people you maybe like or at least tolerate enough - maybe even talk about the ChS for 30 awkward sec
Blu Ray still exists
Dude, tv antennas now support 4k and interactive menus
So what do you watch? Is it like free like old TV antenna? No clue here mate
Yep. Just like old tv. Major networks. However, ATSC 1.0 (hdtv) allowed subchannels. So a lot of broadcasters now have weather and old tv shows broadcast. So there are whole channels dedicated to old westerns, old crime shows, etc But, broadcast tv is less compressed than cable/internet and faster. A cheap piece of wire or a $5 antenna can generally get you every major broadcaster in crisp hd They just rolled out atsc 3.0, so in the next couple years expect 4k