My Story...
I am kind of a techie kind of guy. I like to know how things work, and I am always looking for a better angle. A few years back I was one of those people hooked to cable and the bills that go with it. The service was poor, the bills were high, and I didn't like the fact that often times the service would go out, and I was still getting charged for it. However, like most people I was hooked - either pay for cable tv, and take it, or stare at a dark TV.
Then I started hearing about how after a certain date, all analog TV stations would be going off the air, but I could send away for two free coupons and get a TV converter box. Well I couldn't resist, so I sent away for my TV box coupons. I already had cable, but who knows this might be something kind of cool. Little did I know.
A week or two later in my mailbox from the FCC was two credit card style coupons for $40.00 each. So off to the store I went to get my free cable boxes. Actually I carried around the coupons in my wallet for a couple of weeks until one day I was in my local K-Mart, and I saw the converter boxes. There were a couple that were really cheap looking, and for that matter they all kind of looked cheap, but I saw one that cost ten more dollars then what the coupon would cover, but I bought them anyway. Ironically enough they were made by Echostar for the Dish Corporation which further added to my confusion to how these things worked.
I got the boxes home and the stayed in their boxes for about a month. Finally one Saturday afternoon I pulled one out, and proceeded to mess around with it. They didn't work. I had also purchased a special amplified indoor antenna, but even though I tried they didn't seem to work. I thought to myself oh great it says on the box you can't return them, and so you are out $20 bucks for these two boxes.
I was just about to junk the boxes when I remembered there was an old school clothes line type antenna on my roof, so what the heck I hooked the box to the TV antenna, and all of the sudden a new world opened up..I pressed scan on the boxes' on screen menu and up came 2 channels found, then 12, 35, 50, and finally 65 channels found.
I set the day, date, and time on my on screen menu and then all of the sudden, boom, on my TV were all of these crystal clear, sharp, digital channels. All the major networks, plus their sub channels that included a movie channel, and tons of other programming. Since that day three years ago I never looked back, and even more channels have been added to my Southern California region and now I am up to 114 channels.
I cancelled my cable, and later on I added a Roku box to stream TV shows off the internet. I've found that I have more choices, a whole lot of great, family fun entertainment, and great sharp TV reception. With the new digital TV spectrum, you either have it or you don't, they are broadcast in a code that is unscrambled by your set..that code, once your TV set receives it, is ninety nine per cent of the time superior to your cable tv...
So then I took it one more step further and started setting up my friends and neighbors, and thus this is how this site came to play..I hope it helps..I know I have already save thousands and thousands of dollars.
Under Construction: Last Updated June 2012
I am kind of a techie kind of guy. I like to know how things work, and I am always looking for a better angle. A few years back I was one of those people hooked to cable and the bills that go with it. The service was poor, the bills were high, and I didn't like the fact that often times the service would go out, and I was still getting charged for it. However, like most people I was hooked - either pay for cable tv, and take it, or stare at a dark TV.
Then I started hearing about how after a certain date, all analog TV stations would be going off the air, but I could send away for two free coupons and get a TV converter box. Well I couldn't resist, so I sent away for my TV box coupons. I already had cable, but who knows this might be something kind of cool. Little did I know.
A week or two later in my mailbox from the FCC was two credit card style coupons for $40.00 each. So off to the store I went to get my free cable boxes. Actually I carried around the coupons in my wallet for a couple of weeks until one day I was in my local K-Mart, and I saw the converter boxes. There were a couple that were really cheap looking, and for that matter they all kind of looked cheap, but I saw one that cost ten more dollars then what the coupon would cover, but I bought them anyway. Ironically enough they were made by Echostar for the Dish Corporation which further added to my confusion to how these things worked.
I got the boxes home and the stayed in their boxes for about a month. Finally one Saturday afternoon I pulled one out, and proceeded to mess around with it. They didn't work. I had also purchased a special amplified indoor antenna, but even though I tried they didn't seem to work. I thought to myself oh great it says on the box you can't return them, and so you are out $20 bucks for these two boxes.
I was just about to junk the boxes when I remembered there was an old school clothes line type antenna on my roof, so what the heck I hooked the box to the TV antenna, and all of the sudden a new world opened up..I pressed scan on the boxes' on screen menu and up came 2 channels found, then 12, 35, 50, and finally 65 channels found.
I set the day, date, and time on my on screen menu and then all of the sudden, boom, on my TV were all of these crystal clear, sharp, digital channels. All the major networks, plus their sub channels that included a movie channel, and tons of other programming. Since that day three years ago I never looked back, and even more channels have been added to my Southern California region and now I am up to 114 channels.
I cancelled my cable, and later on I added a Roku box to stream TV shows off the internet. I've found that I have more choices, a whole lot of great, family fun entertainment, and great sharp TV reception. With the new digital TV spectrum, you either have it or you don't, they are broadcast in a code that is unscrambled by your set..that code, once your TV set receives it, is ninety nine per cent of the time superior to your cable tv...
So then I took it one more step further and started setting up my friends and neighbors, and thus this is how this site came to play..I hope it helps..I know I have already save thousands and thousands of dollars.
Under Construction: Last Updated June 2012