Cable Cutting

I'm talking about dumping he cable TV suppliers and moving back to the old days of antennae, with some of the new streaming services for content supplement. Its not a waste of my time to try and save hundreds of dollars each year?

There is digital broadcast and this works with newer TVs. I just replaced one old Sony to which I had an analog to digital signal box connected. I don't have a cable connection but use an antenna and the new TV works fine in my area. My old Sony still works and, as a matter of fact, I have two old Sonys. One is almost 30 years old and the other is at least 20 years old. Both sets still work. Now I need to figure out how to get rid of them as we pay a disposal fee to recycle CRTs now.

Steven, get into Craigslist and offer them for "free" under its free listing option. Yeah, there is a free listings. I check it all the time, just beware and leave the item for p/u alone, maybe covered. -----Willy

called a "curb alert"...that you mention when it will be available. I could do this but prefer it not be my own curb. We also know there are "scrappers" at work both night and day so I could just place it out there without posting the ad. The TVs would have copper in them, of course, but I doubt these folks are responsible about how they dispose of what they cannot sell. Because the TVs still work and I do have a/d converter boxes, I thought about seeing if they could be donated but I really don't want to just hand my problem over to someone else. The recycling fee will be about 25 bucks per set. That might be the way I'll go.

BTW, I don't subscribe to cable TV anyway....only for internet service. I have a TV antenna and live in an area where I receive a sufficient number of air broadcast channels. Cable television would be a waste for me as well as I watch very little TV anyway. For my tastes, it's become a very poor entertainment media. Hey, I don't even own a cell phone so you're dealing with a real dinosaur here.

Steve Haninger:
I'd be interested in what type of antennae you use and where you have it placed? How far from the transmission towers are you? Do you live in the suburbs of Phila or New York? Do you have any streaming services hardware. Thank you.

I have two antennas. One is a basic rabbit ears and the other is an old one I originally installed in my attic with a rotator motor. I had a wired control device to fine tune the antenna when I changed stations but this is something I put up there 30 years ago. It adapts to a 72 ohm coax that I ran to the living room. I've only had the digital TV for a week or two but I do receive all the local broadcast stations. I believe it found about 15 or 20. I live in Ohio in a larger city and within the city limits. As for streaming services hardware, I have none and don't have any intention of adding a thing. As I said, I don't watch it much. It will connect to a PC if I so desire. I've cable internet and a wireless AP so a laptop will connect easily enough. I'm not a movie junkie so I'm really not able to help with the HT craze. Like I said...dinosaur here and fading into extinction. Have a good one.

on the roof of a single storey house.

It's an old VHF/UHF directional type. The wired remote rotator box died many years ago so any adjustments mean climbing into the attic to manually turn the thing. The wiring run from the attic to the living room jack is a bit long and begins as old 300 ohm until landing in the basement where I had originally split the signal and put in a cheap transformer to change to coax. So I can't imagine the signal is all that clean or as strong as it could be. Both the attic antenna and rabbit ears provide a decent enough signal strength to bring in the channels I'd most likely view which is only about 1/2 dozen. That it plays well with my old VHS and DVD players is a bonus. It more than suits what I need for TV use.