[mythtv-users] The Death of MythTV in the US?

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Fri Mar 28 02:12:12 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 03:28:38PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> 
> On Mar 27, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Bob Sully wrote:
> > If you're in the US, you are in a very small minority.  Most of us  
> > here
> > don't.  I get maybe 60 channels in clear QAM but most of them are  
> > useless
> > to me (shopping, foreign-language or religious channels - all in SD  
> > and
> > none of which I ever watch, or the SD versions of the OTA HD  
> > channels).
> 
> I have the same experience with broadcast TV.  I got one of the $50  
> converter boxes and tried it out with a pair of rabbit ears.  I got  

You give up way too easy.

There are plenty of options beyond rabbit ears. You don't even have
to put up an antenna pole. Although if you can then you can pretty
much get all the networks.

> ION, three Spanish channels, and two religious broadcasters.  I put  
> the converter box in my closet and went back to cable.

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