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Either they're old and don't know anything about streaming tech, or they don't like change. I haven't used cable TV in the home in over 8 years. I transitioned to Sling after cutting the cord and tried other stuff, but now I just use whatever out there is free. My Tablo has some pretty good Fast...

It would be more impressive if it had a meter on the box itself along with the ability to put in an RF number without the need of a monitor to be used. I know it's got a signal lock indicator, but having the extra info on the box itself would be more valuable. Like you said, these boxes are...

Competition is generally a good thing. There were competing standards for the original NTSC color standard before the backwards compatible standard took hold.

Disney needs to give up ABC and focus its efforts on the Disney brand and everything with their namesake. What benefit is it these days to continue holding on to ABC?

Where have you been? The FCC the past decade or more has been on the side of the broadcasters and cell phone companies. They were on the side of consumers back when the cable card was authorized for TV manufacturers and when they forced locals to be carried in the clear. Then, they reversed both...

I think they'll get their way on this. The consumer will get shafted, but that's been the plan all along. Those so called people's airwaves are at the bidding of whoever wants to pay the highest price. We'll get the DRM encrypted stuff on lesser bandwidth.

How many channels are up there now like that with all of the compression going on?

You'll never see any auction for AM because the band sucks and doesn't have much bandwidth at all. If you took out the entire AM radio band, you'd have 1.16MHz. TV requires about 6MHz of bandwidth. If anything, they should make that band all digital to allow multiple channels on one frequency...

Oh, just wait until nearly the end of the decade when they start pushing 6G. It'll be "even faster".

If they were so determined to do so, wouldn't it be as simple as cutting much of the UHF spectrum and giving each market 2 or 3 lighthouse UHF towers as is the current set up with 3.0? Then, the 3.0 stations would be the only ones moving and the 1.0 stations would shut down. The consumer gets...

It looks like they're going to explore cutting up more of the C-band spectrum to give away to 5G carriers. The same person at the FCC mentioned 5 years ago that he'd like to cut up more of the UHF band to give out to 5G...

I don't blame them, though. Allen is sidelining his talent. Yes, you don't state the obvious at your current workplace unless you want retribution. I wouldn't be surprised if Allen decides to fire all of news staff for the local stations and has a team handy to do all of the newscasts for the...

Exclusive: Fubo, Ryan Reynolds shut down Maximum Effort Channel I just saw this news after no longer seeing the Maximum Effort in my guide. It sucks because they were the only source for reruns of MadTV. Speaking of which, if anyone knows a FAST channel that shows In Living Color, feel free to...

Allen just needs to sell off his assets (tv stations and networks) before he runs them in the toilet and can't use them as a bargaining chip when he's declared bankruptcy. The guy has made a handful of decent shows, but he knows nothing about running networks or tv stations. He's sued companies...

We don't have an HOA, and putting an antenna on the house isn't prohibited, but based on the area and the look of the homes, I don't really wish to stick out like a sore thumb. There was a guy that used to live in the area with a trailer, and they tried to make it tough for him until he finally...

I ended up going for the Clearstream 2V. It's hanging up in a rafter and gets everything but the low VHF channel and WNAL. I checked details on WNAL, and the antenna seems to be focused West. I'm Northwest of that transmitter, and I think it's not likely I'd get much of anything on my end...

The channel it broadcasted on my affiliate station was originally This TV before it changed over last year. This TV was pretty awesome back when MGM owned it. It was run down after Allen Media bought it. The guy has a handful of good shows, but he can't seem to run an entire network channel...

The band should be about 2.8 to 1.8 meters on a half-wave dipole antenna. My understanding is that you would cut these numbers in half and measure out 1.4 meters for one piece of metal and 1.4 meters for the other piece of metal to get down to 54MHz and join the two in the middle with a 300 Ohm...

Did Allen Media pull the plug on the Grio? As of this morning, the Grio is showing up as unavailable on Allen Media's WAAY out of Huntsville. I know they had layoffs back in August. Another forum mentioned that Sinclair stations made an agreement to switch from the Grio to TBD this month.

They need an option to reboot in the software like Roku does for their units. That would be a lot easier and simpler process than a hard reboot.

Has anyone been having long wait times on their Tablo unit? I've got mine connected via Ethernet and with plenty of signal from a pair of rabbit ears according to the signal meter on scanning in the channels, but sometimes it seems like I can wait upwards of a minute or so before it will pull up...

After much frustration, I decided to forego my plan. With the antenna at full length. I was facing the issue of potentially puncturing my duct work with the UHF directors or bending the low VHF reflector on the back end. I could leave off a set of directors and the reflector, but I figured I’d...

I doubt they're encrypting it for the few dedicated FTAers out there. I'm betting there were reports of independent stations rebroadcasting their signals without going through the process of becoming an affiliate station. With the reduction of the band via the FCC auction, the interference from...

I tried to put in a full panoramic photo of the attic area, but the site said that was too big. Anyway, I opted for the Televes Dat Boss Mix LR Full band antenna. I did some measurements in the space shown, and I can just squeeze in the antenna without disturbing the duct work. It's a bit of a...

I don't see anything too exciting from the news. They mention viewers of broadcast, but they don't mention viewers of 3.0 specifically in their stats. The more I think about it, the more that it makes sense that if the FCC does go this route of selling up all but a few channels, then the...