OK, I have had a bunch of PMs asking me for details after my I cut the cable screed. so i am just posting them here. Not saying this is the best way, but it worked for me. I experimented with a bunch of stuff in one room (my office) of the house. It was mostly about making it a s wife friendly as possible... Check out a Web site called SolidSignal. Everything I got came from there. Antenna. I went through three. Settled on one called FreeVision. I bought an RCA powered one that never worked well and one of the Blade ones which worked OK. The tuner thing may be a crucial link. My working theory is that because virtually everyone buying tvs made in the past ten years are using them for cable, satellite and game consoles and maybe dvd players, that the amount of time and money going into the actual tuner part of the tv has dropped. There are boxes called iView, These combine a GOOD tuner with Digital to analog conversion for older TVs and a record/media playback function via USB. I have two of these in the hose now and am buying two more. About $60 on SolidSignal but I have seen them in the $35 range on eBay. With the attached hard drive you can actually pause and fast forward/rewind live tv just like on your cable/directtv box. You can even schedule recordings. I am an Apple guy through and through so i have Apple TV. You can also get Chromecast or Roku for a little less. what these basically let you do is wirelessly sling video from a computer. They basically put your TV on your network. Netflix is 7 bucks a month as is Hulu. And that covers it. The major key for me was realizing that an indoor antenna is never gonna do it. When I read that 50% of the signal is blocked by your roof it made sense. I have still not actually mounted the antenna outside. It is literally hanging out of a window but getting it outside made all the difference. Along with the better tuner, we went from 12 local channels 10 of which were horrifying crap to something like 50 of which 42 are horrifying crap. But we get all of the majors. The antenna goes into the wall panel that used to be the DrectTV/cable output for the master bedroom. In the box that used to take the input from the DTv dish and send it to receivers around the house, the line from the bedroom now goes to the input of a powered antenna amp. The outputs of that go to the various rooms in the house using the DTv/cable wiring. Out of the wall in the individual rooms into an iView and into the TV. Separate Apple TV units in two rooms now and buying a third this weekend. Thats it. There are a couple of web sites that will show you where your TV broadcast towers are based on your location. That with the compass app on my iPhone and I was aimed in 3 mins. (Still feel stupid for not hitting Bob Heil up for some advice on this. The man knows a thing or 30000 about antennas...) Hope that helps.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:02:43 +0000
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