http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/ Engadget HD Comments for OTA antenna sales skyrocket, cable subscribers jump ship http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/Dec 5th 2007 9:53PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/
A 3x increase if Antennas Direct now ships 1000 antennas a week means it went from 17,000 last year to 51,000 this year.

2,400,000 - 51,000 = a difference of roughly 2.35 Million Households, according to my 3rd grade teacher.]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:01PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/
Also, I love Engadget, but I hate it when people like you decide that they're just going to nitpick and subject us all to posts like yours that are just full of condescending garbage. ]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:40PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/ If I get Sat.(i.e. DishNetwork) which doesn't offer my local HDs, can I plug my OTA directly into the Dishnetwork HD reciever and get my local HDs through the reciever Box without have to switch inputs. Also this would allow me to dvr the locals. Is this possible or am I just stuck swithing inputs all day.]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:00PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/Dec 5th 2007 10:18PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/
Just awesome.]]>Dec 5th 2007 10:16PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/Dec 5th 2007 10:22PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/Dec 5th 2007 11:25PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/
I didn't want to pay for cable TV or satellite service so I bought a nice $110 TV at Wal-Mart which receives both digital and analog OTR signals using a $30 UHF/VHF rabbit ear antenna rig.

So for less than $150 I'm set!

Yeah it's not wide screen HD but I think I'll live.

Terry Thomas
Atlanta, Georgia
http://TerryThomasPhotos.GooglePages.com
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Sidenote: When kindly requesting the downgrade in cable service, the rep told me that I wouldn't be able to get an HD programming through my 1+ year rented tuner. When I told him that seems to violate must carry legislation, he said that he was really only talking about HD stations like ESPN-HD. Unfortunately, it was much harder for me to convince Comcast to not block VoIP traffic when I plugged in my own cable box the next week.]]>Dec 6th 2007 2:33AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/
With all the garbage on cable plus not being able to record all HD stations with Myth over firewire I said screw this I am not paying you $60 a month for junk.

Mitchell]]>Dec 6th 2007 10:35AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/lousy broadcasters are at marketing. Sure, they can run fancy
promos on their own air about news and prime time shows,
but the minute they need to promote themselves outside the
box, they lose their way. How could an opportunity been
presently more with with a ribbon on top of it, than cable TV
charging $100 a month for crap, and over the air reception,
after putting in an antenna, is free to all. The only thing they
needed to do was explain it to the public..... you know,
a report, a story, 5 minutes a few times a day per station.

Ever watch anything on HGTV? That cable TV network can show
millions of viewers how to update a living room for under a
grand in just a weekend, but broadcast television can't show
people how to put up an outside antenna for $150 and one day
of their life? This, versus $100 a month all year, three years,
and $6000 in five years?

It is funny but sad at the same time what has happened to
free, over the air television stations. Everyone will end up paying for everything they watch in the next few years. The era of advertising supported television, free over the air is over.

Dan]]>Dec 6th 2007 1:32AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/Dec 6th 2007 8:38AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/
All ATSC transmission is compressed. OTA signals are in the clear (not encrypted) but they are compressed, most likely using the same exact bitstream that is being sent to the cable headend.

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That's the antenna with the longest range pickup in the UHF spectrum.

I have one of those 80" combo UHF/VHF deals, but good work here with the true 4 bay terrestrial digital antenna.


Those set top antennas stink, and people should know the difference.]]>Dec 6th 2007 12:19PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/Dec 6th 2007 1:34PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/Dec 20th 2007 11:31PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/Dec 6th 2007 3:18PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/05/ota-antenna-sales-skyrocket-cable-subscribers-jump-ship/
I have had great success with the DB4 and have noticed a dramatic improvement in HD picture quality over my satellite HD locals.
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