Now with 100% more over-air HD TV
Lindsey and I finally pulled the plug last week on our basic Comcast cable package, one that cost $14/month for 30 channels (plus the four HD network stations). The Discovery and Travel channel will be missed, as ESPN has been in my house for two years now, but the picture quality and available channels of over-the-air TV never ceases to amaze me.
Using $13 dollar rabbit ears purchased from Best Buy, we now get 17 digital channels (excluding Spanish and complete trash programming), eight of which are broadcast in splended high-definition (CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, PBS, CW, KJZZ, and PBS 2). Fortunately for the sports addict in me, I at least get the later rounds of all major tournaments, as they are always broadcasted on the four network stations.
Now all we need is free wi-max, the soon-to-be announced free PS3 to DVR firmware, and I’ll be set. Anyone else in the room enjoying over-the-air HD?
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Over-air HDTV ftw. I get about the same amount of channels in HD and a few other local ones. Mostly, though, I just watch Jeopardy! in HD. The programming on those channels doesn’t interest me much; I watch Discovery, the History Channel, and Cartoon Network almost exclusively. 🙂
Connor:
RCA Antenna [Best Buy]
I’m not yet enjoying over-air HD, but I am enjoying the picture of that Philips.
Ooh, but how I can haz Mythbusters?
In our area (New Orleans) the only way to get FOX in HD is with the rabbit ears. The cable provider has been in a dispute with the local FOX channel. So, for HD NFL games etc., we have to break-out the rabbit ears, but the antenna does not pick up near the channels in our our area that you are getting. Why pay for cable when you get as many channels as you get with rabbit ears? Way to go!
Can’t give up my DirecTv. I’m a total HD snob and happy to have the service with the most HD channels in my house. 95 HD channels right now with a projected 150 by the end of the year. I know I probably won’t watch most of them, but the thought alone of that much HD at my finger tips makes a grown man giggle like a school girl.
Hi, we live in Eagle Mountain Utah, and use cheap rabbit ears to get most of our over-the-air channels with our DTV. We have tried every inside antenae (sp) that we can but since the switch over we have never been able to get Fox 13 at all, nothing, nada. It is very frustrating as i like their line-up. Are we doing something wrong, or does Fox 13 require some other device?
We get 2, 4,5, 7,9, 11, 14, 30, and their additional channels. We are very bummed!
What make/model of rabbit ears did you get? We have an HDTV that we only use for watching movies and stuff (we don’t have cable), so if we can get some local channels for that cheap, it’d be worth it… can you point me in the right direction?