Alas, Hulu has stopped helping cutting the chord:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/04/30/2048230/hulu-to-require-viewers-to-have-cable-subscriptions
Do any of us cable-cutters depend on Hulu in their TV ecology?
-- Owen
An email exchange I've already had with Hulu support:
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Them:
Hi Douglas,
Thanks for writing in. Nothing has changed for our service, so I wouldn't
pay too much attention to any articles speculating otherwise. We are always
working on improving our service for
Nice! Thanks. So I definitely should play with this a bit.
Have you tried using just an antenna at your house?
-- Owen
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
Owen --
The station finder at http://www.tvfool.com says that an address close to
yours, picked off
Yes. I have a pair of passive rabbit ears hanging on the wall of the
bedroom and the TV is getting 16-20 digital channels from 6-7 UHF
transmitters, depending on orientation and deployment of the rabbit ears.
The VHF channels, ABC, CBS, and the UNM station, aren't coming in. But
that's a
We are very happy with our outdoor professionally installed antenna
(AntennaCraft HBU33). Because of HOA requirements it is discreetly
located on our 2 storey roof (zip 87507) and not visible from the
street. We receive H/SDTV from all the major channels (2, 4, 5, 7, 9,
13, 19, 50) and some.
Yes, indeed, that will work, too.
The true channel numbers, if you are trying to cut an antenna for the right
frequency, are a complete muddle at this point. The digital channels all
specify channel numbers in the broadcast stream which reflect their
original RF broadcast channel. The only DTV
This was on Randy Burge's Google + stream:
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/02/special-series-cutting-the-cord-to-cable-tv052.html
Basically a series about getting rid of Cable/Satellite TV:
With rising cable and satellite bills, thrifty Americans pinched by the
recession have considered
We gave up on TV about 8 years ago. Haven't looked back. Of course I care
very little for sports and only miss it for big political moments like state of
the union or presidential debates.
I have noticed that my tolerance for advertisements is very low and watching TV
at the in-laws house
One thing I forgot earlier is that most cable cutters apparently have
local broadcast sources so use an antenna for them.
This may not be possible in Santa Fe which, according to the link in the
article (zip to TV station map), can only get Albuquerque .. which likely
doesn't work for most sites.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:34 AM, rin r...@bluesink.com wrote:
We dropped cable nearly 2 years ago and don't miss it except for an
occasional sports event (World Cup Soccer, Tour de France etc).
BUT, one secret I don't think many people realize is that you should be
able to plug in a pair of
Owen --
The station finder at http://www.tvfool.com says that an address close to
yours, picked off google maps, has line of sight to 27 TV broadcast
transmitters, 20 of them digital stations which can have multiple channels
multiplexed.
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