Who cares? A $50 indoor or $80 outdoor antenna will get you all local broadcast stations, free, and UNCOMPRESSED. Furthermore, it's an especially great deal for DISH Network subscribers because DISH will knock $5 a month ($60 a year) off your bill if you "roll your own" broadcast this way, so the antenna will pay for itself in the first year, a little later if you pay someone else to install it. After that, you're ahead of the game a little further every month.
DISH Network subscribers who pay DISH to get what should and can be FREE over the air broadcast TV are idiots.
That's a pretty unfair shot; I happen to pay for Dish's locals in my market for a very good reason: TWO TUNERS!!!! With an OTA antenna, you can only watch or record one network show. So if you are recording something on say Thursday night, you cannot watch another network or record on another network. Fortunately, Dish is about to release a dual tuner OTA capable DVR, so that would solve my problem).
If you get your local channels over the air rather than through the satellite you can't record them on the DVR and since I'm rarely watching at the time the shows are actually on it would be might inconvenient to try and record them over the air to watch later without the DVR.
I don't believe I pay any extra for local channels anyway. I think that was dropped with my most recent contract.
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Who cares? A $50 indoor or $80 outdoor antenna will get you all local broadcast stations, free, and UNCOMPRESSED. Furthermore, it's an especially great deal for DISH Network subscribers because DISH will knock $5 a month ($60 a year) off your bill if you "roll your own" broadcast this way, so the antenna will pay for itself in the first year, a little later if you pay someone else to install it. After that, you're ahead of the game a little further every month.
DISH Network subscribers who pay DISH to get what should and can be FREE over the air broadcast TV are idiots.
That's a pretty unfair shot; I happen to pay for Dish's locals in my market for a very good reason: TWO TUNERS!!!! With an OTA antenna, you can only watch or record one network show. So if you are recording something on say Thursday night, you cannot watch another network or record on another network. Fortunately, Dish is about to release a dual tuner OTA capable DVR, so that would solve my problem).
If you get your local channels over the air rather than through the satellite you can't record them on the DVR and since I'm rarely watching at the time the shows are actually on it would be might inconvenient to try and record them over the air to watch later without the DVR.
I don't believe I pay any extra for local channels anyway. I think that was dropped with my most recent contract.