Yeah, I'm back to relying on my over-the-air antenna again, and
sometimes the signal strength starts to lessen or a channel sometimes doesn't come in at all, which is annoying. Locast was a great way to be able to watch local channels easily, without getting a premium TV
service.
Its weird how we have to pay for retransmission of local channels compared to antenna. Maybe we should have a rule where if your at a certain income you dont have to pay as much for local channels.
MATT MUNSON wrote to Nightfox <=-
Its weird how we have to pay for retransmission of local channels
compared to antenna. Maybe we should have a rule where if your at a certain income you dont have to pay as much for local channels.
Yeah, I'm back to relying on my over-the-air antenna again, and sometimes the signal strength starts to lessen or a channel sometimes doesn't come in at all, which is annoying. Locast was a great way to be able to watch local channels easily, without getting a premium TV service.
Its weird how we have to pay for retransmission of local channels compared to antenna. Maybe we should have a rule where if your at a certain income you dont have to pay as much for local channels.
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I have a friend in the U.K. who says they have a method where they can detect what broadcast channels you watch with an antenna and -still- charge you for the service! At least we're not like that here... yet.
NIGHTFOX wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-
YouTube TV and Hulu with live TV are a couple alternatives to Locast
where you can straem local TV, but each of those are about $65/month.
I don't think I'd want to pay that just to be able to watch local TV channels. I know they have other content, but I'm not sure I'm
interested in that right now. I think $5/month (or $60/year) for the ability to watch local TV seems a lot more reasonable to me.
Nightfox wrote to Brian Rogers <=-
I'm not sure how they'd do that.. For that to work, I'd think the TV would have to be connected to the internet or some other form of communications to send information back somewhere, and the TV would
have to be set up with the viewer's information. These days though, I suppose a smart TV could include something to send usage information through the internet behind the scenes without the viewer knowing..
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