From: nospam@needed.com   
      
   Colin wrote:   
   > On 28/04/12 12:49 PM, Some Guy wrote:   
   >   
   >> When Rogers degrades their analog service further during some future   
   >> round of channel-pulling, that's when I cancel my cable subscription.   
   >> By then, I'll have my TV antenna tower up with my array of GH and Yagi   
   >> antennas with custom-built pre-amps to recieve US tv stations OTA.   
   >   
   > When the time comes when analog is canceled, I too would get myself a   
   > digital antenna and a media router so I can watch programs on my TV from   
   > my hard drives.   
      
   OTA isn't all it's cracked up to be. Our government missed a golden   
   opportunity, to move all the stations to UHF, which would have made   
   the antenna end of things so much easier. Instead, we've got stuff   
   on VHF as well (it's hard to get an antenna with flat VHF response,   
   as well as cover UHF).   
      
   One problem with fancy antennas, is if your antenna is too directional,   
   you'll need a rotator. Someone one street over from me, has an   
   antenna with a rotator, and I've never seen it move off the original   
   vector :-) I haven't a clue what that means, as the stations we   
   can receive here, are oriented in two different preferred directions   
   (two antenna sites).   
      
   Considering the number of times I've had stations drop out, or stations   
   malfunction (TVO running a transmitter signal, with no program content :-) ),   
   I wouldn't want to rely on OTA for emergency broadcasting.   
      
   OTA - be careful what you wish for. If you're currently on cable,   
   and are thinking of OTA, by all means get your OTA gear and   
   test it. And when you see how it works, you'll be "hugging your   
   cable guy".   
      
      Paul   
      
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