It is just another way of government making all conform to what they want you to be doing and having without coming right out and saying it. That would sort of be like communism, right? They lead, you follow and when they go off the end of the cliff don’t forget to be a lemming and just follow along. Notice that once it got implemented you can no longer access help or anything else, that is just another perk of this useless system of no T.V. reception. So the reason for that is that they have now created another problem for you that you should then in turn call a repair person who is not going to be able to do what you can’t do and that is, make the signal strong enough to transmit to your particular area. But it will add to the repairmans bottom line and the government as yet another source of revenue!

Watch free T.V. at hulu.com no gimicks involved. For R-rated content you will have to join. Takes no time. I do not work for any of them, I am a consumer who is fed up with paying out every penny to greedy money mongers who not only force all this on us, but they also set the price beyond most people’s means. Makes me wonder if that is to help keep the seperation of rich and poor going and therefore eliminating the middle class as has been going on for years. Everything plays into government. They never do anything with just the pure reason of doing it there are many avenues to be had when they implement anything by force. Much like your computer you may have and like a lot, well not if they come up with the next newest one that does not upgrade off the last and you are forced to go out and buy a whole new one to keep up with it all. You want it you will pay for it in one way or the other. That is why government also wants to tax the internet, they just hate to see a source of revenue they have not gotten their hands into and made a mess of pass them by.

As to the stupid booster antenae’s that they said to go out and get to “boost” the signal for receiving more stations, it to, is just another way to get consumers to follow the leader and go out and buy some more of what does not work and they do not need, but because they said so, it must be so, right? My son bought me one. I used to get 4 stations prior to installing it and then got three using the booster and now for the past week and a half there is zero signal. How do I know, the box has a function to look at the antenae signal and it is showing 0 strength when it runs from 14 to 17 and we know which one pulls the better signal, and as Doogie states herein, you either get signal or you don’t and that goes for watching T.V, too. Also, when scanning before it would make a dark blue color in the little box indicating it found a channel, and now it just runs its little scan right on through like no tomorrow and no channels either. All any of this did was make money for the government by making us buy the DTV box if we wanted to continue to have T.V. (which is a lie they were aware of and knew that not all people would get a signal, I think it would be interesting to see a report of how many homes got signal with analog as opposed to DTV.) reception and make money for the stores via taxes and now making money for the repair business to fix what they can’t fix, but they will come out and try, and charge you for it, too. This was all about the government making money, there was nothing wrong with the way old T.V. worked.

If you are really fed up and it doesn’t bother you to watch T.V. on the computer, then you have your answer to many of what people state herein. I pay for the cheap DSL, if you do not have DSL the movies and T.V. shows I watch for free on-line will not stream properly and you end up with much the same as the lovely DTV BS. Go to hulu.com and you can watch all kinds of movies and T.V. shows/series. It is free, quick and easy. I refuse to pay for cable, satelite, or dish television. We already get gouged enough at the places we have to buy from for survival purposes without willfully handing even more to these cable and more companies that all you get is repeat after repeat. That is the other advantage of free T.V. over the net, you already pay for your internet so you are not paying twice.

I don’t see it as a drawback, but for those who just have to have the latest this and that big screen and such then you need to get someone to hook your T.V. into your computer or vice versa and you can still watch it on big screens. Otherwise, it is watched on whatever monitor you may have. You will not get a movie that just came out, theaters are the way to go for that and or rentals which defeats getting free T.V. You can watch them as hulu is allowed to present them though. Sort of like waiting for a movie to go on DVD, but it is on the net instead. The other great advantage to this is that it takes up no extra space in your home/apt because you do not store DVD’s, VHS’s or any other media retrieval format.

You get to watch what you want, when you want and no repeats (unless you want to repeat a show) and you can even watch some of the old movies from days gone by. Some of the movies and shows are great and some mediocre and anywhere inbetween. It just depends on you and if you think it is a better deal to watch T.V. through your computer connection which you are already paying for or if you want the added expense of cable. And for the rest of us who get no signal, at this it just means time freed up to do other things that would have been spent in front of the T.V., not that I ever spent much time, but it would be nice to catch the news and the weather. Shows I have watched on hulu.com are House, The Red Shoe Diaries, The End of The Spear, 30 Days until I’m Famous, Arrested Development, Better Off Ted, Bones, Brothers&Sisters, Canvas 2006, Caught on Tape, Cops, Crime & Punishment, Dateline Crime & Punishment, Fatal Memories, Forever Knight, Ghoset Junters, Hope &
Glory, Angels & Demons, Jackie Chan’s The Myth, Kickboxer 3, Kyle XY, and so much more. Did you ever miss episodes of a favorite show or not get to see a movie and waited to see it again but never got repeated, well make it a point to check this site out and see if you can’t find what you missed. Best part is you watch when you want and what you want and no repeats, unless you want to.

I don’t think local stations get the impact of this nor do the advertisers. They lose a lot of potential customers for their programming and the advertisers lose us to not seeing what they have that is new on the market and therefore,we aren’t even aware of what they want to sell to us, the consumer. I am out of the loop on some things now and I have gotten so used to it that I like it and will not go back to watching T.V. the way it used to be. It is internet T.V. or it will be no T.V. When it is time to move I also won’t have to lug a big heavy T.V.

Good luck to all, I honestly feel what you are going through as there are so many of us and the government could care less they got what they wanted and now so do I. T.V. on demand!

You may need to call in a local TV tech to pinpoint your problem. Something is interfering with your signal. Local power lines can be a big problem. So can fluorescent lights that are close to your antenna. Anything that throws out a disrupting signal can weaken your reception.

I don’t personally like omnidirectional antennas unless you are in the middle of a city. That means it is receiving signals from all directions. If all of your television transmission towers are located in the same general direction, a good directional antenna will pull in a stronger signal. Move it around until you get the strongest signal across the most channels.

Know i have to scan multiple times and not get most of them. I can know only get a few stations 36 and 54. It has been this way for the past 3 months.

use and indoor anteana.

That’s a strange problem. I have not seen a splitter that was not ‘digitally capable”, but sometimes a different frequency splitter is be used for satellite connections.

Most cable companies are still using analog signal transmissions. A special digital box can be added as an upgrade to allow you to receive special digital channels (usually a range of channels above 100) that they offer, along with enhanced features. A digital converter box (something different) is used to convert digital transmissions so that they work with older televisions with analog tuners. It sounds like Comcast in your area is using a digital transmission via cable which requires a digital converter box for compatibility with older analog televisions.

There may not be an easy way to locate a splitter behind a wall. A splitter or any cable connection should never be behind a wall, but it sounds like the builder did not follow proper procedures or standard building codes. Usually a splitter is found at a cable service box (called a terminal box) on the outside of the home, in an attic, or in a basement where the cable enters the home. They can even be found behind the cable connection plates on the wall. Sometimes homeowners daisy chain a cable run, but that is not the proper way to run cable. All cable should be run using the “home run” method, which means that the main cable network cable connects to a splitter, which distributes the signal via individual cable runs to each room. The splitter is most likely to be found at the point where the cable enters the home.

To transmit video and sound signals, do a search for “wireless video transmitter”. There are several on the market. I don’t have a specific recommendation. I suggest you do a search for products in Amazon.com and read all of the product reviews carefully. Be aware that you may get what you pay for with this type of gear and it probably won’t be cheap if you have to transmit to several televisions.

Question: 1) Is their a way to locate the splitter without tearing up all the ceiling? 2) Is their a way to digitally broadcast the channels from the garage to the televisions? without using the cable?

Advise.

Larry

An inline signal booster will not probably help with some coax, such as RG-59 because the coax is not shielded well enough and therefore picks up interference from AC electrical wiring and stray transmission signals. That resulted in weak reception and ghosting problems with the old analog transmissions.

I have not tried using a booster with weak digital transmissions. If the signal strength is just below the threshold, it may work.