[AT] OFF Topic: 4 month Verizon WAR

[Ron Cook]

Farmer,
     You are absolutely correct.  When the stations changed to digital, 
the reception went out the window.  Even the very close ones that you 
would rely on for severe weather information, will not work when the 
weather is bad.  Analog had ghosts and snow and static, but you could 
still receive a signal and could make out what you needed to know.  The 
broadcasters say it was mandated by the FCC, and it probably was, but if 
you follow the money, you will undoubtedly find that the final 
consumer(us) is paying for it one way or another.  It is NOT progress.  
It is getting screwed.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

On 9/2/2015 4:26 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> Of course you know that we are being screwed on TV reception now... About
> 30 years ago I bought an old kind of large (for the time) TV at a yard sale
> for $5. It had one of those old mechanical tuners. You know, it went clunk,
> clunk, clunk as you turned it then you used the "fine tuner".
> Living here about 25 miles south of Indianapolis it was always possible to
> get all of the Indy channels with rabbit ears or a $6.95 small outside
> antenna from K-Mart. With that old yard sale TV just on set-top rabbit ears
> I could consistently also get Fort Wayne, Chicago (just one or two), Terre
> Haute (west edge of state), east to Dayton Ohio and south to Louisville KY.
> On a good day I could pull in from a little farther. In more recent years
> before I had satellite TV I had an antenna that looked like a 747 hovering
> over the house on a tallish mast with a rotor on it and a signal booster.
> None of the newer digital tuner TV's would pull in worth a dime. I don't
> know if the limits were in the sets, the broadcasting or both but I do know
> what I was getting in the past and and I do know that they took that away
> from me. I'm not very happy about that. It seems kind of funny that Pluto
> gets better reception than I do...
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