OT: What's the best HDTV antenna setup?

[Josef Lowder]

I am a "cheapskate" also, Vaughn; but even more than just being
"cheap," I have two additional motivations. #1 is I intensely dislike
and resent the notion of being forced to pay for a hundred or more
garbage channels that I simply do not want under *any* circumstances
(many of which I do not ever want coming into my home); and #2
because I discovered that the HD signal OTA (over-the-air) is superior
to what I got from cable anyway.

Thanks in large part to some good ideas I gathered from plug
friends, I picked up an amplified 4-way splitter from home depot
for $29 and put the unsightly set-top antenna in a back bedroom;
so now everything is working just great.


On 7/6/08, Vaughn Treude <vltreude at deru.com> wrote:
> Josef Lowder wrote:
>  > What do recommend as the best HDTV antenna setup?
>  >
>  > Does signal strength need to be boosted if I put an antenna in my attic
>  > and run a long coax cable to connect it into my house cable with 3 devices
>  > connected?
>
>  I didn't need to boost it, and I ran about 100 feet of coax.  But I only
>  connected it to one TV, so it might be different for you.  (What a
>  cheapskate  I am! I buy a 50-inch TV and I _still_ don't have cable. :-) )