http://www.fishbrains.com Technology, Investing, and Living Deliberately Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:02:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.fishbrains.com/2007/10/05/ota-dtv-and-hdtv/ http://www.fishbrains.com/2007/10/05/ota-dtv-and-hdtv/#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:43:41 +0000 Bret Fisher http://www.fishbrains.com/posts/223 If you value your free time, just get your HDTV, pay the cable company for all the HD gear, and enjoy. If you are naturally cheap and have weekends to kill, try this. I’m 19-24 miles from all the OTA (over the air) stations in Hampton Roads, and I’ve got a near perfect DTV reception with 10-year-old rabbit ears I put in (not on) the attic. It gets me a signal, but I get signal loss enough to make it unwatchable. I just ordered a ‘best on the market’ antenna to replace it for $60. Sexy over the air HDTV, here I come. All I need now is CNBC over the air (or Vista Media Center Internet TV to carry CNBC) and a HDTV TiVo, and then Cox is out the door….

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