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Mine is aging, probably need to rethink my house soon.
So when I first did the cable cut route, I setup a FTA dish and receiver system. It has served me well and internet streaming fills in gaps nicely. Last year I built a DTV antenna and made a basic AMP. With that, I pickup an honest ~23 local channels over air(scan in 35, but about 6 come in too choppy to watch) . About 8 are worth a damn to me (and TBH, that is more than enough to not notice missing cable TV).
Also use a number of, essentially, Chinese Android TVs/Kodi-compatible devices (kind of sad, still more powerful than newest fire and roku devices, despite being all of them being a few years old). You learn quick that the power of advertising hides the fact that a Roku Ultra or FireTV is *not* anywhere close to being in the top 100 of most powerful devices(even simplicity claims and stability are a bit skewed). If you're happy though, I don't mean to harp(yeah I do, those guys should actually release better hardware already, its freaking 2018 and 4gb RAM devices are compeditively priced with their 1GB devices, very sad)
Also use a local file server, so just pulling media files from that NAS makes things easy. Mind you, as complex as this may sound, this didn't happen over night. It's a configuration that was built over 12 years or so, and if you count the network storage, add another 15 years or so.
Had a 1G shield, gave it to my sister, loved it, but wanted to make things easy on her. Shield is still the most powerful device and least vendor lock-in of the big plug-and-play set-tops, so it allows users to do the most as well. Thinking about going the easy route and just buying a shield again, but waiting on a Tegra X2 shield for the main TV.
Looking at doing an omni directional outdoor antenna, split it in with current system and call it a day since everything works. But with the new FCC standards and DTV repeaters scheduled to go up, been working on simplifying my current setup.
Looking for ideas or to help others who don't know where to start (or just give up and stick to their shitty cable/satellite provider).
Whatcha got? Just a Mohu Leaf? Signal repeaters and full grid configured home with 70+ DTV reception? A *stick* device?
Mine is aging, probably need to rethink my house soon.
So when I first did the cable cut route, I setup a FTA dish and receiver system. It has served me well and internet streaming fills in gaps nicely. Last year I built a DTV antenna and made a basic AMP. With that, I pickup an honest ~23 local channels over air(scan in 35, but about 6 come in too choppy to watch) . About 8 are worth a damn to me (and TBH, that is more than enough to not notice missing cable TV).
Also use a number of, essentially, Chinese Android TVs/Kodi-compatible devices (kind of sad, still more powerful than newest fire and roku devices, despite being all of them being a few years old). You learn quick that the power of advertising hides the fact that a Roku Ultra or FireTV is *not* anywhere close to being in the top 100 of most powerful devices(even simplicity claims and stability are a bit skewed). If you're happy though, I don't mean to harp(yeah I do, those guys should actually release better hardware already, its freaking 2018 and 4gb RAM devices are compeditively priced with their 1GB devices, very sad)
Also use a local file server, so just pulling media files from that NAS makes things easy. Mind you, as complex as this may sound, this didn't happen over night. It's a configuration that was built over 12 years or so, and if you count the network storage, add another 15 years or so.
Had a 1G shield, gave it to my sister, loved it, but wanted to make things easy on her. Shield is still the most powerful device and least vendor lock-in of the big plug-and-play set-tops, so it allows users to do the most as well. Thinking about going the easy route and just buying a shield again, but waiting on a Tegra X2 shield for the main TV.
Looking at doing an omni directional outdoor antenna, split it in with current system and call it a day since everything works. But with the new FCC standards and DTV repeaters scheduled to go up, been working on simplifying my current setup.
Looking for ideas or to help others who don't know where to start (or just give up and stick to their shitty cable/satellite provider).
Whatcha got? Just a Mohu Leaf? Signal repeaters and full grid configured home with 70+ DTV reception? A *stick* device?
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