[gui-talk] would like some help after disconnecting from cable tv

[Gerald Levy]

Welcome to the wonderful world of digital TV, where the cable and satellite 
companies hold their customers captive.  In the good old days of analog TV, 
you could usually obtain satisfactory reception with little more than a set 
of rabbit ears.  But in the high-tech world of digital TV, you are lucky if 
you can get reception at all with an indoor antenna.  With analog TV, you 
could still hear the sound, even if the picture wasn't clear.  But with 
digital TV, you either get a crystal clear picture with sound, or nothing at 
all.  I live in Manhattan, less than ten miles from the TV transmitter atop 
the Empire State Building, but I still can't pull in all the local over-the 
air channels with an indoor antenna.  So I'm stuck with Time Warner and its 
poor customer service and outrageously high cable bills.  If I ditch Time 
Warner, I might as well chuck my TV sets also, because there is no way to 
get decent reception with an indoor antenna.  And I'm still waiting for 
someone to develop a Walkman-style radio that also receives over-the-air 
digirtal TB channels like the old analog models that had AM, FM and TV bands 
, but apparently there are too many technical hurdles to overcome to make 
such a product a reality.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "beth.wright--- via gui-talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 6:00 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] would like some help after disconnecting from cable tv


> Hi, listers.  After experiencing astronomical increases in my monthly 
> cable bill, I decided I'd had enough and disconnected the service. I was 
> told by a friend that, if I got an indoor antenna for my TV, I wouldn't 
> have any problems getting my local channels over the air. Unfortunately, 
> the antenna doesn't work at my location, the signal is extremely weak, and 
> I can get only a couple of channels. Has anyone else on the list been 
> successful in cutting the cord and getting good tv reception or is this 
> just not possible in some some locations? If that's the case, are there 
> any receivers you can bufor that will broadcast the sound from the TV 
> stations? I know that, before everything was converted to digital, 
> some -panies made radios with TV sound bands. In fact, I have one, but, of 
> course, it doesn't work since the signals from the local TV channels are 
> now digital. Thanks in advance for any help.  Beth Wright
>
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