Had the tv detect more channels today.
I watch over the air tv. Especially as background fair. Notice the was pretty stable and clear and realize the weather was real good and decided to tell it to auto detect channels again. Wow so many channels came through. Had to hide a whole bunch (the hide interface is so annoying. click choose between two option and click. like seems super obviously click should just toggle view/hide). That is all. Oh watching have gun will travel atm.
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When I was working television I would take the steerable satellite antenna's and go from satellite to satellite looking for video to watch. In the 90s most of the syndicated TV shows were un-encrypted. We started keeping a log of what we found at what time/bird and it kept us entertained between feeds.
90% was junk food TV like Maury/Springer but there were some gems like MASH/Cheers/Etc
Digital broadcast TV is pretty awesome - a given channel actually has more bandwidth than a cable channel, so you can do full 4K over the air.
cable is nuts nowadays. Its been some years but I worked at a place that had I think basic in the break room. all reality tv and the commercial breaks were longer than snippets of the shows. It was crazy. There are over the air digital channels showing reality tv and the ads are no more than the other channels which are definately less than half the show time and im pretty sure a fair bit less. 100% every cable channel I saw at that workplace had more commecial than show.
TV still has channels? TIL
Watching some old movies (Thin Man) right now on broadcast :)
I have the DVD set of the Thin Man movies! I love them! Just pure Hollywood fun!
Interestingly enough, the Thin Man story in books is about a jewel thief that ends up in prison for years after he is caught. And then dies shortly after his release as a broken and penniless man. But that wouldn't sell as a movie at all I guess.
During the World Cup, I got frustrated with switching between BBC iPlayer and ITV's app. I usually use IPTV, and it's great, but for some of the matches, it was kinda flaky.
Anyway, we used to have Sky years ago, and I ditched that for various subscriptions and IPTV, but never bothered getting Freeview as we had a shoddy old aerial and poor signal.
However, after speaking to a guy at work, I picked up a new USB-powered aerial on Amazon for £29 and gave Freeview a try. I ended up watching all the games in HD, with no buffering and without the 30-second delay all the streaming services had. I was delighted!
Nice! I need to find my antenna
I use a hdhomerun tuner with an antenna and every time I run a scan for new channels it turns up something new...normally something I don't care about but I will keep trying.
How are you liking it? I get a handful of channels off a set of cheap hoop/rabbit ears hooked direct to the TV, but I've been thinking about sticking a decent antenna up in the attic and an hdhomerun on a shelf in my rack (then add it to Jellyfin). I'm also a little concerned about investing that money and effort just to have the stations around here switch to DRM shortly after. I'm in the states and, as I understand, they haven't been able to get approval for DRM decoding on their devices. Meanwhile there's some chance of DRM becoming standard/mandatory(?) for OTA TV within the next year or so.
Same setup, with the Extend model so I can record one show while I watch another (or record both). It's been like 8 years and the thing still gets a couple of firmware updates a year. Solid investment.