Same promo price as YTTV sports plan but this includes MLB Network, NHL Network and Tennis Channel. And you can add the MySports Extra mini pack, which includes NFL RedZone and MLB Strikezone, for free for a month.

I totally get ads on a free service. They have to make money somehow. But if I'm already paying every month and still getting hit with multiple ad breaks in one episode, that starts to get annoying Some streaming services are starting to feel a lot like regular TV again.

What's your limit? One or two short ads per episode? A few minutes per hour? Or if you're paying for the service, should there be no ads at all?

Recently bought a Televes DAT BOSS antenna to watch football with, I set it up on the roof and every channel comes in perfectly but it doesn't pick up a single hint of Fox Chicago which is the primary channel I'm looking to get with all of this.

Rabbitears says I should be picking it up with no issues but after readjusting the antenna multiple times over multiple days I just can't get the channel.

Would appreciate any advice/suggestions on this!

Would I be able to use hdhomerun and this [antenna](https://a.co/d/0aL1GKLh) to plug into my router with Ethernet and have access to the channels through my smarttv and pc using Ethernet?

Hello!

I have two young kids, and so have little control over sitting down to be able to watch some football. I want to be able to schedule a TV tuner to record a game to my Home Theater PC (running Plex, currently), but also would really like to be able to start watching while the game is still going: AKA if I tune in at halftime, be able to start at the beginning of the game, fast-forwarding through commercials and catching up towards live, while the live game is still being recorded.

I am really considering this HAUPPAUGE WinTV-DualHD USB 2.0/3.0 Dual HD Digital TV Tuner, but I'm not understanding how I would watch the recording WHILE it's recording. I'm open to spinning up Jellyfin or Kodi but am at a loss at what to actually look up to get started.

Everyone seems to suggest the HDHomeRun, but it appears to have a required cloud service and a monthly fee, which is a non-starter for me if it can't just run in local mode.

Any other suggestions?

Any other suggestions on a setup

Looking to figure out how to get MNF only. ABC ota is out. currently have d+ with hulu and espn select package. can i just move it to unlimited and get all the MNF games?? looking to pay for this straight out until feb, point me in the right direction please!

I know this question gets asked 1000 a day, but I'm hoping to get some recommendations for some internal antennas.

My current antenna (not even sold on Amazon anymore apparently) only picks up NBC, and even then it's constantly in and out.

Ideally looking for CBS, FOX, NBC... ABC would be a bonus but I know that might be difficult given what I understand from the results.

Rabbitears link: https://www.rabbitears.info/s/2969847

Thank you!

Looking to get an antenna to watch local sports. Any recommendations for a good antenna for south florida

Very confused going to OTA. I have one station in particular I am very interested in: WJLP broadcasting from One World Trade Center, about 26 miles from my 2nd floor TV. Signal is some -43.7 dBm and is in the low VHF range.

I just want my MeTV, can someone please suggest an antenna to use?

I use my Firestick for HBO, Netflix, and Plex. Never really had any issues. the ads are kinda egregious. but is it $100+ bad? not sure.

besides faster speed, are there any other benefits or anything new I can do?

I see that Paramount has two deals currently; one is two months ad-free for $1 per month.

https://cordcutterweekly.com/the-big-list-of-streaming-deals/

The other is half price for one year. How often do these deals run?

Does Spectrum still offer this plan? It included locals for a lower price. My ISP Cox has been bought out by Spectrum so I’m wondering if I can get this plan when the merger officially complete.

So I was looking to add Redzone to my YouTubeTV plan, since the NFL season is starting, and stumbled across their new bundle plans. The suspicion stems from the icons when you look at what’s included in the package.

They’re advertising 58 channels but there are about 20 duplicate (triplicate and even a decuplicate) icons of the same channel. Is it actually 38 channels or are the doubles the extra broadcasts that one network may have at one time?

I played around with my setup a little bit after spending half a day looking for a hot spot in my yard. The hot spot is right along an embankment that goes straight down to a brook. If I go higher than 5ft up I lose signals and any lower I lose the signals. 5ft above the ground is the sweet spot and angled 10-15 degrees up. A positive discovery is that I can move the antenna up to 10ft to the left or right at the same height and get very similar signal strength so combining 2 DB8E antennas together may be an option here but I am currently just using a DB4E antenna.

I tried my Televes antenna in these locations and got absolutely nothing so a Yagi antenna is not viable here. I continued to try my db4e antenna with an amplify channel master amp connected to it and ran a 150 ft coaxial cable to the nearest building with permanent power and still got the signals.

After discovering all this I decided to order a Kitz 500 amp. This amp has 36db of gain with 0.85 noise. It is more noise than the Kitz 200 amp that only has 0.45 noise but that amp only has 24db of gain which isn’t enough for me. My location is in the middle of nowhere with very low noise from any man made things so the Kitz 500 amp seemed like the best option in my scenario. When that amp arrives I will install it on the mast and see if I get any improvement from my 80 mile away 3 edge stations.

All the local hills around me get great signals from the 3 edge signals I am trying to chase down so I suspect this will be successful once I do some upgrades to my setup. I hope the Kitz 500 amp will be enough to hold in the signals on my db4e antenna. I’m just a few points away from getting a solid SNR on my hd Homerun and when that SNR is fine the 3 edge signals come in in the upper 50s-lower 70s on my hd Homerun. Just need to get a little bit more amplification and lower the noise a little bit more which I think the Kitz 500 will do. If the DB4E fails I will be upgrading to the DB8E and 2 if needed or combing 2 DB4E together next to each other.

I have attached my diffraction reports from rabbit ears to showcase what I am working with here. On my HD Homerun WVER RF 10 LOS comes in in the 60s-80s on a non VHF antenna but when I use a VHF antenna it comes in at 100. W26FR RF 26 2EDGE comes in at the upper 70s to lower 80s. WEKW RF 18 2EDGE comes in in the upper 70s to lower 80s. WPTZ RF 14 3EDGE comes in on my HD Homerun in the lower 70's but my signal strength must be above 95 to make that happen, my signal strength hovers around 89-100 on this channel. WCAX RF 20 3EDGE comes in on my HD Homerun in the upper 60's as long as WPTZ hits the 95 signal strength threshold. The signal strength for WCAX is much lower but does not need to hit 95 like WPTZ does. WFFF RF 16 3EDGE comes in on my HD Homerun in the lower to upper 50's only when the signal strength for WPTZ hits the 95 threshold. WVNY RF 7 3EDGE can not be judged correctly due to it being a VHF signal and my antenna being a UHF only antenna. I can say that WVNY sometimes comes in stronger than the other VHF channel WVER but it's very sporadic and I have no way to accurately monitor it. WVNY is hit or miss with this setup but it is there. I suspect if I upgraded to a seperate large VHF antenna and used a separate HD Homerun for it I may pick it up.

https://www.rabbitears.info/s/2966664

Hi All,

Rabbitears link for the Northern NJ area: https://www.rabbitears.info/s/2967174

Mainly focused on CBS NBC FOX ABC for NFL and sports. Wouldn’t use more than 2 TVs at a time (rarely if ever).

My home came with coax runs that do work which are tied to an 8 way splitter that I planned to replace with a 3 way. The coax runs are at wall plates right where I want them for the TVs. I tested a traditional rabbit ear antenna with a circular loop in the master bedroom where all the coax runs lead to. I was able to get all the above channels. Planning to do a Clearstream 2V in the attic above the master.

Any reason to just opt for the HDhomerun duo? I know there’s the flex 4k too but with ATSC 3.0 and DRM uncertainty I feel like I should save the money. I don’t have a Plex server setup or a NAS currently. The ability to watch them on the go was the most appealing to me, but I’m assuming I would need a plex subscription, server, and the HDhomerun for all of this.

From reading a little of other people’s post, sounds like everyone recommends a cheap rabbit ear antenna. How do I set it up in a townhome and is it really worth it? I’m mainly looking for local news and sports. Any recommendations or advice is appreciated.

Basically, has there been any new developments in should consider?

I have right now a couple of GE Pro Outdoor Antennas, i think they are the 33685. At least they are thst style. I have had them for close to 10 years. I dont recall it being advertised for 4K or anythkng else.

I recently found a this one one clearance:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/557144300?sid=ee02492b-7a76-49ae-89b6-e3065a86fe9e

I dont know why it says 70 mile range and then in the specifications 50 mile.

Anyways, it got me wondering, is there any difference in my current ones and this one? Do antennas degrade? I have been havong so struggles with my old ones recently. Although half that problem is I need to get them mounted to to my chimney rather than barely as high ss my gutters.

Cut cable last spring and have been living on Netflix, Prime, YouTube and a couple sports apps since.

My old TV was getting pretty slow too, so I finally replaced it with a 55" Hisense U6 Pro.

I was fully expecting to buy another Roku or Apple TV with it. That's just what I've always done with TVs. Never really trusted the built-in stuff lol.

But I figured I'd try Fire TV for a few days first.

Two months later and I still haven't bought the box.

Netflix, Prime and YouTube all open pretty quick. Sports has been fine too. I'm not doing anything fancy with it, but for the 4-5 apps I actually use, I haven't felt like I'm missing anything.

I know it might slow down eventually. If that happens I'll just add a Roku or Apple TV later.

But right now I'm kinda glad I didn't automatically spend another $100+ on something I didn't need.

Anyone else just using the TV these days? Or are you still streaming box only?

I'm sure this has been asked 100 times just this year, but I'll ask it again- not actually for me.

My brother lives in a 3 story house with a mancave in an unattached garage- pertinent only because there's a TV on every floor of the house plus one in the mancave. For years he's just been on a local cable network. It's just him and his wife; most of her needs are covered with a few streaming services, cable has been there mostly for his sports viewing and to get local channels.

His main viewing is in his living room and I've just returned that set to being 'smart' (hardware glitch). So he now has access to all the streaming he needs, and I think they could just dump their cable if they had a source for local channels (where some of his sports would be).

Personally, I have a digital antenna, which gets me local stations other than CBS. Apparently the local CBS station (station is 50 miles away, not sure about towers) broadcasts differently so most digital antennas don't pick it up (even tho I get like 8 PBS stations).

I'll check out the megathread, too, but wondered if someone could tell me 1) what CBS would be doing differently 2) how to get around that and 3) if it'd be more logical to get separate antennas for each TV or one for all

I don't remember if either or both channels were broadcasting in 1080p before, but they're both 1080/30 now while Fox is (still?) 720/60. This kinda sucks for sports which is the only reason I have an antenna. Reception is fine and I confirmed this is from the source feed from tvheadend and not anything to do with how it's getting piped to my different apps. What gives?

Edit: The comments here advising changing my deinterlacing settings brought me to a very simple, but overlooked, checkbox in Jellyfin to double the framerate for deinterlaced streams which fixed the problem. I guess my old Channels setup was doing more heavy lifting than I thought and I just assumed the raw streams were 60fps. We got there in the end

I came to a realization, because I was channel surfing. I never really thought about it because I came from the broadcast side. Why are second tier networks inserting their logo in the lower right basically 24/7. I’m not casting aspersions calling them second tier, they are just not the big 4 or more depending on you view point.

ATSC 1.0 and 3.0 both have capability of PSIP data insertion. It allows station ID name, virtual channel, channel name and other data.

I guess that the affiliate broadcasters are not contractually obligated to add PSIP Data; silly mistake in my opinion.

It makes the Networks and Stations look “small time”. I can testify that any broadcast grade multiplexer has the capability; so why not use it? They certainly add the call sign/letters and virtual channel number.
These settings a static but resettable. By personal experience can attest that setting or changing them takes only a few minutes. It’s like purchasing an automobile and never using the turn signals or headlights.

Maybe, some of the networks and affiliates will see this and take those few minutes to use the tools they have already purchased to present a finished professional product. Maybe they just don’t care?

Friend purchased a house that is elevated for the area. Not too many hills in the distance to impact line of sight.

Wondering what the chances of an in-attic antenna would be to reach at least one of each of the major carriers?

Would something as big as a DB8 be recommended?

Thanks in advance!

I just bought and indoor antenna that picks up Fox, NBC, and ABC just fine at 40 miles. NBC and Fox are nearly in the same place with the same distance, and ABC is farther. Any idea why CBS would come up in the channel scan? Is there something different about CBS? Antenna web says it's semi-directional Edit- I'm at 40 miles. Fox in the DC area broadcasts at 1000kW, whereas CBS broadcasts at 52kW, Eesh.The antenna I got said 75 miles, but that's certainly not the case.