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So glad we cut out YoutubeTV, the monthly price went up to $65.
yea i got an email about this. i'm still grandfathered in at 50 dollars until october. i plan on turning it back one once sports start up then turning it off again after baseball season.
All you need is a wire you can strip on one end to stick into the coax antenna plug center hole. Try 6 ft of wire. If it copper wire, sandpaper the end to clean off the copper oxide until it is shiny, and then plug unto coax hole.
I don't think an internal TV Tuner card is very cost-effective. For $89 from Walmart you can get a brand new 24" Class 720P HD LED Roku Smart TV (.onn Model:100012590) which weighs less than 6 lbs. My guess is your monitor is smaller than 24".
I finally got the Hauppauge PCI-E single channel card. I use a 32" monitor with my computer. That size is sufficient for watching TV in my apartment-sized living room. I didn't want any more monitors and the audio is already connected to my stereo and my vintage JBL 3-way floor speakers. I can easily switch back and forth from TV to free streamed video from the web.
The card works great. It cost me $60 from Amazon. The price seems to continually change. I am using an antenna with a signal booster, that I bought about 20 years ago. I get all the major networks and then some. The remote control leaves a bit to be desired, but I only wanted this to watch NFL games since the Raiders moved to Las Vegas.
My husband and I cut the cable over a year ago. We still have high-speed internet, a roku tv and believe it or not, the cheapest flimsy over the air antenna that cost us like $25. It was made super cheap too. My husband was really concerned it wouldn't hold up in the elements so he mounted it inside our attic. We ran the cables we had already down to our tv. I am consistently impressed with the stations we get and the clarity inside the attic. Everyone said, well it isn't going to work but it does. I honestly think though you need a smart tv for this to really work well.
We do enjoy the availability of free stations on the roku like pluto also. With being retired we love the fact we no longer have dish.
Also with our roku we were able to attach a jump drive to the tv and can pause and rewind live tv.
I just stream now with one of the new Chromecasts that does everything I could want. I don't watch sports or news so it's been an easy transition for me.
There will be one of those little coax connections in the back of your TV. If you are anywhere near a town, you just get a set of rabbit ears, screw those into the TV and set them on top of the TV. You will probably have to turn them around a bit to find the strongest signal.
In my area there are several channels free over the air: the big three networks (CBS ABC NBS) Fox, Quest, Ion, and two different channels of PBS.
Purchase a streaming device. You need Wi-Fi for it. I have a Roku brand device.
An HD antenna will get you stations if you have a lot of repeaters in your area. I think you would because of your location which I presume is near a big city.
Where I live is a more remote area and all I can get on an antenna is about 4 channels. So a streaming device was my choice.
Tried an antenna a few years ago. Zero signal because of large buildings between us and the transmitters. Took it back to Beast Buys.
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