You might be surprised how that old antenna picks up digital tv.I have been wanting to get one of these for years- i may do so when i get a new antenna & put it in the attic. Our current antenna is probably from 1974 & quite the eyesore
I actually bought a newer/ little bit smaller rca antenna to put up there. I tried it out in the living room first & it picked up all the same channels w/ more bars for some when raised up near the ceiling.
i must procure a new one ….
Called Y: the last man. It was a neat spin on the typical apocalypse genre.
It’s almost just like cable. You can try it free for 2 weeks, which is what we did. My wife was reluctant, but actually likes it better than cable. I think Hulu is the same price and you get all of their content, so it’s a better value, but reviews say their TV is a little more complicated to use, which is a non-starter in our house. Plus, we have Hulu for $0.99/month for a year, so I figured I’d go with YouTube until that promo runs out. Might switch to Hulu at that point if we like the content enough and pricing is still equal.
We had an HD attic antenna in a 2nd home and it worked great. I had it professionally installed, but I think total price was something like $250. Crystal clear pictures and about 30 channels, most of which were useless, but the local major networks gave me news and most live sports. I tried one of those flat plastic antennas a few years back and it was a total pain. Worse than the old rabbit ears. They may have improved since then.
FYI - you have to customize the guide via the app on a phone or tablet. You can’t do it directly on the TV. Once I figured that out, it was a snap. You uncheck the channels you don’t want to see and can organize the ones you keep in any order you want by dragging them up or down. Even without that, the YouTube guide is smart enough that it organized itself based on what you watch most frequently, as those channels will start to float to the top. It’s actually pretty cool.
I started this last night. Only made it through 1 episode, but I liked it! Thanks for the recommendation! However, it also reminded me why I don’t make it very far with Hulu content. I have the $0.99/month promo which includes commercials - lots of them. Took me something like 90 minutes to get through first episode, but I also took a phone call, so hopefully that’s an outlier.
That seems high so hopefully it was a glitch. I get 2 quick commercials at the beginning and a couple of similar quick breaks mid show. It still WHOOPS the 9 min Walking dead episodes that last 1 hour 12 minutes.
I think you should get into screen writing. Like immediately.
I agree- streaming services change their programming content regularly so having a device that can access the most services so you can change up is important. I have been very happy with the plethora of popular apps available for roku ecosystem. Their tv’s & their individual devices are pretty on par with each other. Only some of the very oldest devices no longer have support for a few things.
Just the fact that *I* was the remote growing up....... Roku wins.
The ones I remember signed off at midnight. I'm sure the timing was regional. And ours was a fighter jet overlayed on the waving American flag.
Midnight growing up with the flag. I think I remember some with snow after a while. My God can you imagine if the internet did as well, perhaps some more civility would return!!
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. At 10PM the news asked me where my children were.
