Hi, I am a first time poster and joined this site because I would like to find out more about this subject.
Let me give you a little background. I personally don't really watch TV, unless some news thing is happening or I need the weather.
But my mom lives and dies by it.
She lives in a rural area where cable is not available. She has looked into Dish TV, and DirectTV but she isn't really that gung ho about the packages and channels offered. Plus they all seem to offer introductory rates, then zoom up after six months or a year.
She signed up for some fly by night streaming internet TV service, that didn't have much original content. It was pretty much movies from Hulu and programming that stations were putting on the internet on their own.
While reading up on that subject, I came across the whole FTA thing. But I do have some questions.
In earlier years I knew people with Satellite Dishes. Some paid some kind of subscription fee, but there was lot of programming out there they could get. Additionally you could see cool stuff that was the feed to local TV stations among other things.
Do things pretty much work the same way? All I seem to hear about is Dish and Direct. Would she be able to get other things? This pretty much came about when TV when digital. Things worked fine before, but while digital TV might give more options and a better picture, it sure played heck in the hinterlands.
She has a pretty tall antenna mast, tall enough that I am not putting a taller one up. I think it is about 30 feet. I replaced her old antenna with something from Yagi that was supposed to be designed for long range digital reception. It improved things a little, but it is not as good as predigital. Plus no matter what some channels she used to get just fine from the closest city won't come in reliably.
So if I brought a receiver and dish, what kinds of things might be picked up, without signing up for Dish or DirectTV?
Let me give you a little background. I personally don't really watch TV, unless some news thing is happening or I need the weather.
But my mom lives and dies by it.
She lives in a rural area where cable is not available. She has looked into Dish TV, and DirectTV but she isn't really that gung ho about the packages and channels offered. Plus they all seem to offer introductory rates, then zoom up after six months or a year.
She signed up for some fly by night streaming internet TV service, that didn't have much original content. It was pretty much movies from Hulu and programming that stations were putting on the internet on their own.
While reading up on that subject, I came across the whole FTA thing. But I do have some questions.
In earlier years I knew people with Satellite Dishes. Some paid some kind of subscription fee, but there was lot of programming out there they could get. Additionally you could see cool stuff that was the feed to local TV stations among other things.
Do things pretty much work the same way? All I seem to hear about is Dish and Direct. Would she be able to get other things? This pretty much came about when TV when digital. Things worked fine before, but while digital TV might give more options and a better picture, it sure played heck in the hinterlands.
She has a pretty tall antenna mast, tall enough that I am not putting a taller one up. I think it is about 30 feet. I replaced her old antenna with something from Yagi that was supposed to be designed for long range digital reception. It improved things a little, but it is not as good as predigital. Plus no matter what some channels she used to get just fine from the closest city won't come in reliably.
So if I brought a receiver and dish, what kinds of things might be picked up, without signing up for Dish or DirectTV?
