[AT] OFF Topic: 4 month Verizon WAR

[Mike]

A government mandate making things worse, Ron, that's blasphemy!!!

Mike M


On 9/2/2015 7:46 PM, Ron Cook wrote:
> 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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