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Skriven 2010-02-17 13:41:16 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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Ärende: On the Glass Teat
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->  -> You are about mid-way between Boston and NYC transmitters ... and,
as
->  -> you say, pretty fringy for analog.
-> 
->  RH> The local stations came in OK, but anything more than 30 miles out
->  RH> would be toast over the air.  That would mean I'd pull in two major
->  RH> networks plus PBS.  Pretty worthless.
-> 
-> Nothing worthless about PBS. What *IS* worthless is the majority of
programming
-> on the major networks.
-> 
Like I said - it would leave me with not much worth watching.  Over the air I
used to get not one but two PBS channels.  I still get both on cable.

-> Do you have an outside antenna, or do you depend on some form of rabbit
ears?

I use cable TV.  No antenna.

-> With a tall enough mast and antenna you *should* be able to pull stuff
from up
-> to 100 miles away. Which *should* include NYC, Boston and Albany, NY. As
well
-> s
-> Springfield, MA and other Connecticut cities. Sometimes local
programming is
-> ay
-> more interesting than network dreck. 

That used to happen on occasion.  In parts of the state, no external
antenna in use, I used to get both New York and Boston. The over the air
signals from Springfield used to be great too, but it's been almost 20
years since I got TV that way.  
 
->  RH> That's more than I'd get.  Fortunately we just got the digital
->  RH> converter boxes in the mail for cable.  The local cable company
(long
->  RH> may they rot) has decided to do away with 90% of the analog
stations
->  RH> and essentially demote anyone using standard cable to rock bottom
basic
->  RH> plus the weather channel come May.  I'd get FIOS, but there are
->  RH> logistical problems that make it difficult.
-> 
-> You could always get a TeeVee with an ATSC tuner (digital) in it. Then
you

Laugh here. If I had a hard time pulling in anything on analog, how would I get
it with digital?

-> don't/shouldn't need the converter box. Telling people with digital
glass teats
-> that they *need* a digital converter box (at extra cost) is just another
way
-> the barstids rip-off their captives.

It's for cable, not OTA.
  
-> Who is your "local" cable company? $cumca$t? Time-Warner? CableVision?
Charter?
-> They're all thieves but $cumca$t is the absolute worst of the lot.

Comcast.  They're reliable, but they're also expensive.
 
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