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Quick Summary.You. MAY. Be Able To Get HD Television Totally Free!Yes, I said it, it is completely true in some cases.It’s not guaranteed to work in all cases, but this is what worked (and still does) for me.That’s why I starred AND underlined may in the heading!There are no strings attached.You don’t need to buy one of those black box cable descramblers or whatever they may be called these days (if those are still a thing–I’m probably dating myself a bit here too).You don’t need to buy any fancy tv antenna. On their television, the digital music stations came in with the sound and picture, where I only get the sound (making it difficult to know what the heck is even on that station).So that told me all I needed to know–this wasn’t something relegated to only my television or my cable provider.You can try it for yourself one evening or weekend when you have a little spare time.Who knows, maybe you will even have better results.Either way, if you feel like cable service is too expensive already, now you can really get your money’s worth! I get it, this trick won’t work for everyone. Or you may want/need more variety than what you can get. In case you aren’t able to match my results, go check out Amazon’s selection where you can get for great prices and still save a bundle over cable!If you prefer something else, try out which has a large selection of broadcast-type television shows, as well as originals.If that doesn’t work for you, then maybe will be more to your liking. Not only do you get the free 2-day delivery on eligible purchases, but you get the Prime Video included which I’ve actually been loving lately (more for the movies than tv shows).Or, if you want cable networks without the high cost, you can get to try.

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Then if you like it pay as little as $20/mo with other plans available to add even more channels. It all depends Marilyn.An antenna will receive uncompressed signals which are always of the highest quality—but many times you need to position it near a window or else the interior structure of the home may interfere with the signal.Personally, I just plug my TV directly into the cable jack on the wall without an antenna and then go to the settings on the tv and do a complete scan.It doesn’t always work all of the time, but if even if you only paid $10 for an antenna, that’s a huge savings as well! Does anyone realize your carrier is ripping you off if they render this pickup method moot with some kind of signal kill tech? As others have implied, carriers are legally required to render their paying customers the same OTA channels their STBs bring in regardless of HOW those particular stations come to the television ( i.e. If you’re paying for cable, satellite or even newer prototype “wirekess streaming carriers” like Sling, part of your bill is the reception license fee that covers OTA channels and thus “carrier mandated” STBs are basically a semi-illegal scam ). Hi Felicia!There’s no exact science to it, you just need to use a little trial and error.

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Various factors can impact your ability to pick up stations including line of sight–so even if the antenna is in a window, there might be trees or poles or even other houses blocking the signal. The distance from the signal tower is also a big factor as is the materials your home is built with (metal is not good for any kind of signals such as over-the-air tv or even cell phone).You can try positioning it in a different part of the window or even try not putting it the window but on the opposite side. Playing around with the location of the antenna won’t guarantee better results, but it just might! I have been using this method for years.

I have internet only through cable line and they had an analog filter in line to fuzz out the basic cable but my tuner was still picking up HD channels. I was getting mad channels for a bit because they implemented the new digital box for TV and removed my analog filter for a couple months. Then when they cut out analog and new system was activated it cut me out almost entirely.

I can now get a couple stations but they come and go. Lol, good thing there’s plenty of other options. Hey there Patrick!There really isn’t much additional info, really. This whole process is based on equipment and I’d assume luck as well.If your TV is older it might now have the decoding capability. Your cable provider also has a lot do with your success.

It’s not guaranteed to work for everyone every time.You may want to check out the options I mentioned in the yellow box at the end of the article. Or, you can order an and try to pick up the uncompressed signals that way (just click on the red link and you’ll get taken to a section of Amazon just for that). If you plug into the wall you could get OTA (over the air) channels (ATSC encoded the funny channels with decimal points) usually best reception is with a good digital antenna. Unless your TV comes with a HD CableCard I doubt you’re getting digital HD cable channels it’s a different encoding and that’s what the cable boxes do for us when paying for HD cable. If you’re getting cable channels, they’re probably SD without a cable box and you are connected to the cable company in their patch box. This can be a simple mistake on their part — or I have also known cable companies to not filter it out if you have internet service from them; it will be basic cable. I would think by now there would be no SD over cable anymore but maybe they’re still doing doing it because some customers like one or two HD cable boxes and have 5 TVs in the entire house and don’t mind basic cable on the remaining 3 TVs.

Because cable companies are generally horrible they charge $5 per month per HD receiver rental and I have also seen $5 HD upcharges per month for “HD Programming”. Sadly, I have both internet and “flex” TV (broadband streaming TV) from the cable company but when they hike up my current rate next year I will probably get rid of TV and maybe downgrade the internet speed. I usually watch movies so I am an avid Roku user. Sadly I’m still behind on the times and run at 720p but now with a really good laptop I can put 1080i on the TV it’s an older TV.

Hey John!Since DirecTV uses a satellite signal to feed to the tuner and then to the TV itself, it won’t work.However, you can always try plugging your TV directly into your cable jack and run the scan to see if anything comes through. If not, you can try to use an HD antenna but that’s not guaranteed either because of the line of sight issues and signal blockage due to building materials. The good thing is that you can always exchange the antenna and keep trying different options until you either find one that works to your liking or you just give up 🙂If you go to the yellow box toward the top of the article, and use the link I have in there it will take you right to a page on Amazon that is all antennas and nothing else–I like to make it easy hahaha. Actually, the trick should still work as long as the wall coaxial(s) meet the dish on the other end. Its not really so different from having the in-walled coax system running beyween coax wall inputs and an outside feeder to the cable lines. The only difference is the house coax feeds to a private dish and not a bunch of fiber or standard overhead lines ( so its technically less convoluted: the dish receives satellite fequencies and then feeds those to sat carrier decoder STBs in your home. But only the privatised channels would be outscrubbed from TV tuner pickup.

The law in, say, the US requires OTA not to be so tampered with. Hello CharlieI know of no cable company that provides HD stations in their basic subscription package. The HD stations are in higher-tier combo packages or a separate package altogether just for HD.And while you are partially correct that all local stations broadcast in HD, that signal is only freely available over-the-air with an HD antenna and with some luck depending on where you can place it or what your home structure is made of.The HD stations that come through on my specific television are on -2 channels such as 2-2, 4-2, etc. And the SD are on 133, 151, 154 etc. None of which are part of the cable company’s listing structure. I tried your suggestion with a bit of a workaround.

I had satellite TV and pulled the plug because I didn’t want to pay. First I tried going through the receiver (satellite cable into receiver and then a cable from the receiver box to the TV) but that didn’t work, so I pluged my Satellite cable directly into the tuner on my TV. I scanned and my TV says right now I have 13 digital channels, however some of them only play music without a picture as you’d mentioned. I also can’t get any of the networks such as ABC CBS or NBC. Any suggestion on how to get those channels? The scan function on my TV worked quickly, what took the most time was figuring out where the cables go. The other problem is if you need to have internet in order to do this and this pointless for me because the reason I got the antenna was so I didn’t have time either cuz they were charging way too much for Internet only.

And I didn’t need cable with just the internet but I thought the antenna would have been much better yeah apparently we’re not allowed to get anything worth anything for any amount of time. And all I wanted was CBS can’t even get that so I settled for what was there and then they take my only so I enjoy away.