the only problem with OTA antennas is that they're not all created equal. The little set top ones just don't cut the mustard for a lot of people.
What does that mean? You end up with digital break up when the wind blows: pixelation, movement breakup, macro blocking, or even dropped signal.
I'm about 20-25 miles from my stations and I needed to step it up. I got an old school 80" boom vhf/uhf antenna from radio shack, and now it's rock solid. The 4 bay terrestrial digital antennas are even better, and since you're not amplifying the crap out of everything with these larger antennas; just receiving what's there, you don't end up being so susceptible to noise.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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the only problem with OTA antennas is that they're not all created equal. The little set top ones just don't cut the mustard for a lot of people.
What does that mean? You end up with digital break up when the wind blows: pixelation, movement breakup, macro blocking, or even dropped signal.
I'm about 20-25 miles from my stations and I needed to step it up. I got an old school 80" boom vhf/uhf antenna from radio shack, and now it's rock solid. The 4 bay terrestrial digital antennas are even better, and since you're not amplifying the crap out of everything with these larger antennas; just receiving what's there, you don't end up being so susceptible to noise.
That said, you can't beat OTA and a TIVO S3.