i don’t. Never needed it and don’t want to set up anything else.
Oh no...Direct tv
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i don’t. Never needed it and don’t want to set up anything else.
ABC be good for me! Network TV in rural area.
Also I'm watching re-play of WV game right now on cyclone.tv! Walters/Heft call on Cytv yesterday.
Re-plays so much better when your team wins!!!
Also I'm watching re-play of WV game right now on cyclone.tv! Walters/Heft call on Cytv yesterday.
Re-plays so much better when your team wins!!!
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Get youtube TV, it's seriously a fantastic deal if you have medium speed wireless internet or better
Hulu also does some live streaming and I think they recently signed a deal with Disney, so ABC may be included there too, if you have Hulu.
Hulu is owned by Disney. You can get Hulu live, Disney+ and ESPN+ for about $70.
What doesn’t ******* Disney own? I’m only about 80% certain they don’t own the rights to my life.
Same here. I had a 40” Sony CRT HDTV and a big Sony Rear Projection HDTV circa 2002 and used the rabbit ears in the Twin Cities. Was better than DirecTV
This website will give you a good idea of what you should be able to receive. If all the stations you want are coming from the same direction you can get a directional antenna, but I don't have any particular suggestions on which antenna to get.
Where are you located? Here in central Iowa, it's the owners of WOI channel 5 that are in the rebroadcasting rights spat with DirecTV, if you're in a different area with a separate ABC affiliate you're probably OK.
Seriously, especially just for the championship game, just get a free trial of YouTube TV if you have a smart TV or something you can get apps to your TV on.
You can cancel right after the game if you don't want to risk it.
Personally, I would take this as an opportunity to cut the cord. I switched from ridiculously overprices DirecTV to YouTube TV and I am so much happier. I was paying for a lot of crap I didn't need, including technology that was 20 years old that they didn't even ask me to return. That tells you how "state of the art" DirecTV is, and they kept hiking up the price.
I realize how little I used DirecTV for and how easy it is on YouTube TV. I've watched one show with my wife outside of sports.
You can cancel right after the game if you don't want to risk it.
Personally, I would take this as an opportunity to cut the cord. I switched from ridiculously overprices DirecTV to YouTube TV and I am so much happier. I was paying for a lot of crap I didn't need, including technology that was 20 years old that they didn't even ask me to return. That tells you how "state of the art" DirecTV is, and they kept hiking up the price.
I realize how little I used DirecTV for and how easy it is on YouTube TV. I've watched one show with my wife outside of sports.
kcbob79clone
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This website helps you find the best antenna
www.antennasdirect.com
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I was just about to type this as well. There is no such thing as a HD antenna, people and you most likely don't need to overspend for an antenna either. When everything went digital around 2009, any antenna that could/can connect to your TV will work for a HD or SD (standard definition) signal. If you're within 20-30 miles of a TV tower/transmitter, a basic $10 antenna from about any store will probably work, give or take the circumstances of your location, obviously.
Please. Next you're going to tell me my HD vision sunglasses are just regular polarized sunglasses.
A lot of antennas these days are optimized for UHF channel reception. They often don't work that well for VHF channels, and in particular the low VHF channels 2-6. This is the reason you see a lot of central Iowa people complaining about not getting channel 5. As somebody earlier said you might want to check your channel scan for channel 5.5 if you are having issues. KCWI rebroadcasts WOIs 5.1 channel on their frequency as 5.5. If you get 23.1 you will also get 5.5 and be good to go. For those low VHF channels there is no substitute for size (insert TWSS joke here) and a big old outdoor antenna like your grandparents used to have works best.
