Are you able to get over-the-air broadcast TV with an antenna?
Nightfox

I recently dumped my cable, was getting way to expensive for the amount of time i watched it. I bought a antenna to pick up local stations. I get about 30 stations but it all depends on where you live and if you have a lot of trees and buildings blocking your signal. Also I use a bunch of the free streaming services like Pluto, Roku TV and Plex Tv. Plenty of decent stuff on there to make me happy.

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By: Cozmo to Nightfox on Sat Jan 18 2025 11:17 am

I recently dumped my cable, was getting way to expensive for the amount of time i watched it. I bought a antenna to pick up local stations. I get about 30 stations but it all depends on where you live and if you have a lot of trees and buildings blocking your signal.

A couple years ago, I heard there's a newer broadcast standard, ATSC 3.0, which has been rolling out in the US. A couple of the main goals are to allow over-the-air TV broadcasts in 4K and improvements to the signal to allow better reception in places that have a lot of trees & buildings & such. It looks like the main networks in my area broadcast in both ATSC 3.0 and the older standard; my HDHomerun Flex 4K tuner is able to pick up the ATSC 3.0 broadcasts and it seems like they do tend to get better reception for me. I often like to watch Jeopardy (on ABC), and for some reason I tend to have trouble getting the regular ABC broadcast station, but ABC's ATSC 3.0 channel tends to come in fairly well for me.

Also I use a bunch of the
free streaming services like Pluto, Roku TV and Plex Tv. Plenty of decent stuff on there to make me happy.

I have a few of those too - Plex TV, Roku, Pluto, and I recently signed up for Tubi. I don't use them very often, but perhaps I should use them more, as there's lots of stuff to watch with those. I probably watch enough TV as it is though..

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I currently use Youtube TV as my primary service, but they are raising prices.So wondering what others are using. I selected them years ago for the live tv, and local channels (abc,nbc,cbs).Secondary services I use are: netflix, prime videoDropped some others to save money, but of
course they are coming out with new stuff I want to see :-( ---

I do watch a lot of Youtube and subscribe to YT premium - not the TV part, just premium YT w/o ads.

I used to get Netflix, and still buy a month here and there when some series or show I want to watch comes out - I'll use that month to binge download anything I'm interested in and cancel.

For everything else, I rely on my .torrent stack. Its made up of several applications;
a VPN, qBitTorrent, Jellyfin, Jellyseerr, Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.

Those are a VPN, .torrent downloader, Streaming App, Library Scanner/Suggests movies/TV, .torrent Searcher, Movie Downloader, TV Downloader, Mustic Downloader and a Home Screen.

A hoy, matey!



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Hello paulie420!

[...] Jellyseerr, Prowlarr, Radarr,
Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.

Are those named in homage to things piratey?


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[...] Jellyseerr, Prowlarr, Radarr,
Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.

Are those named in homage to things piratey?

Dude - I never thought of that, but I sure hope so... hmmmm.
Gonna research that a bit!



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By: Cozmo to Nightfox on Sat Jan 18 2025 11:17 am

Are you able to get over-the-air broadcast TV with an antenna?
Nightfox

I recently dumped my cable, was getting way to expensive for the amount of time i watched it. I bought a antenna to pick up local stations. I get about 30 stations but it all depends on where you live and if you have a lot of trees and buildings blocking your signal. Also I use a bunch of the free streaming services like Pluto, Roku TV and Plex Tv. Plenty of decent stuff on there to make me happy.

indoor antennas failed for me. Maybe I should try external, i just cannot climb under the house to run cable; and wife would have a "cow" if she saw or found out I climbed the tower. LOL

I probably need to look at using some of the free services. Only thing is, you cannot pause them (so back to oldtime tv), I love DVR. That's the other reason I went to youtube tv for their DVR and easy of use. I don't have to watch it when it comes on, but on my schedule.

I have all three of the services you mention; but don't use them reguarlly.

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Nightfox wrote to Cozmo <=-

I have a few of those too - Plex TV, Roku, Pluto, and I recently signed
up for Tubi. I don't use them very often, but perhaps I should use
them more, as there's lots of stuff to watch with those. I probably
watch enough TV as it is though..

If Roku supported IPTV, I'd stick with IPTV for terrestrial channels,
pick one streaming service and explore all of the free/ad supported
content on Roku - there's a ton of it.

Amazon Fire sticks support IPTV, but I don't know about their other
channels.

If I ever need to cut my expenses way back, that's where I'd start.



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paulie420 wrote to Amessyroom <=-

For everything else, I rely on my .torrent stack. Its made up of
several applications; a VPN, qBitTorrent, Jellyfin, Jellyseerr,
Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.

I need to check out the Arrs - I'm doing it all manually now, finding
out what I want to see, then going to tracker sites. Once the content is
here, I'm using DLNA to stream to Roku devices.



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For everything else, I rely on my .torrent stack. Its made up of several applications; a VPN, qBitTorrent, Jellyfin, Jellyseerr, Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.

I need to check out the Arrs - I'm doing it all manually now, finding
out what I want to see, then going to tracker sites. Once the content is here, I'm using DLNA to stream to Roku devices.

Many times I prefer searching w/ prowlarr and not the other automated arr searchers.

However, I do make use of many of them..



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