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How to get free HD Channels

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Basically the deal that cable and satellite companies want you to believe along with your local electronics stores (they get commissions for signing you up) is that you have to subscribe to cable or satellite to get HD Programming. This is simply not true. Basically all your local channels are free over the air through an antenna. You may laugh at this idea however cable and satellite providers compress and rebroadcast the same over the air signal that you can get yourself. All you need is an antenna, and an HDTV equipped with a digital tuner. Most markets have all the locals available in HD free over the air and the quality is better than dish and cable. This is especially great for those of you living in an area where dish doesn't provide your locals in HD yet you don't want to subscribe to cable to get them. The other trick is that if you don't want to mess with an antenna, your cable company by law can't encrypt the local channels, so what that means is that all you need is the cheapest $10 package and a TV equipped with a QAM tuner and you can get the locals through your cable provider without subscribing to HD programming or digital cable.Digital TV Tuners were required to be placed in all TV's starting this past spring 26 inches or larger and actually even earlier for larger sets. This is all part of the mandate by congress that all over the air broadcast stations are digital, however this doesn't specify HD necessarily.Refer to antennaweb.org to see what free over the air channels are available to you and what type of antenna (indoor or outdoor) you need. For me in Baton Rouge, I'm able to get ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS all for free in High Def with a simple $30 antenna.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Author: all2neat

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amazingdany (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
I've built the popular coat hanger antenna seen here on Youtube and the five free digital channels I get sure are sweet. Evening HD shows, NHL, NFL and NBA are glorious.I still cannot get digital ABC and Fox but I hope I will next February. You just need the big local networks anyway.
Eduard392 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
K, so i tried this with an antenna that is like 15 years old, and it catches NBC, CBS, Global, CBC, ABC, PBS, etc, BUT i dont catch channels like fox or A&E or Discovery. Im in Canada, but i was thinking that my only problem would be the age of the antenna. Would a newer one help recieve alot more channels? Oh, and these are HD too :)
all2neat (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
A digital channel can have multiple sub-channels.. That's what's going on. usually channel number dash one is the main channel.. like 9-1 here is our local CBS affiliate.. 9-2 is a rerun of the news, 9-3 is the weather..My tv uses a hyphen, some use decimals.
all2neat (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
I'm not sure. Sorry.
all2neat (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
No, your TV does the decoding, not the box.. so it uses a coax cable.. your tv acts like a HD Cable box is the closest thing I can compare it to.
LiqwidZero (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
No, because these channels are all digital.If your television has a built-in tuner for digital broadcasts (and most new televisions do) you will be able to do this. I have NBC, ABC, CBS, two weather channels, four APT (PBS affiliate) channels, and some other stuff.
2ruthfox82 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
will this change... on feb, 09 with the digital change over
battimo (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
what about in the bahamas i got cable will it work can i catch hd signal if i get an antenna
sonofzion (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
why is the channel list has 2.4, 2.1, once you recieve a signal does it automatically do that?
juggalo450 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
i got the other box thats rca the one with the white box an the lil power choard are those the same thing or what cause the lil box has a male an female plug but the other flat one just has a male port what gives??

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