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utee94

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Re: OT - Cable Alternatives
« Reply #336 on: October 23, 2019, 06:12:38 PM »
Anyway, on Stranger Things, I thought season 1 was great.  I thought Season 2 was weaker, and Season 3 was actually better.  I do think all the boys not named Dustin (or Steve) ended up being minimized.  I'm ok with that.  I don't mind the Russians, I think that plotline is fun and kitschy and very much appropriate for the 80s.  I'm good with it.  The thing I love most about Stranger Things is that they try to make it like a show in 1984 that was conceived, produced, written, and acted in 1984, rather than a show about 1984 with all of the views and knowledge of 2019 built in.

The 80s were cheeseball.  Terminator Russian was great.  Season 3 was a step up for me from Season 2.  JMO.

I tried to watch 2 episodes of Breaking Bad, not my thing.  Same thing for that HBO gangster show from years ago that so many people loved, don't even remember what it was called, but tried to watch it and also not my thing. Oh and Walking Dead absolutely bores me to tears. I'll occasionally watch it with my wife and it's really really not my thing.  I did like some scenes with Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the bad guy, he's one of my favorite underrated character actors.

People have different taste though, that's for sure.

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« Reply #337 on: October 23, 2019, 06:50:01 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on October 23, 2019, 06:12:38 PM
Anyway, on Stranger Things, I thought season 1 was great.  I thought Season 2 was weaker, and Season 3 was actually better.  I do think all the boys not named Dustin (or Steve) ended up being minimized.  I'm ok with that.  I don't mind the Russians, I think that plotline is fun and kitschy and very much appropriate for the 80s.  I'm good with it.  The thing I love most about Stranger Things is that they try to make it like a show in 1984 that was conceived, produced, written, and acted in 1984, rather than a show about 1984 with all of the views and knowledge of 2019 built in.

The 80s were cheeseball.  Terminator Russian was great.  Season 3 was a step up for me from Season 2.  JMO.

I tried to watch 2 episodes of Breaking Bad, not my thing.  Same thing for that HBO gangster show from years ago that so many people loved, don't even remember what it was called, but tried to watch it and also not my thing. Oh and Walking Dead absolutely bores me to tears. I'll occasionally watch it with my wife and it's really really not my thing.  I did like some scenes with Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the bad guy, he's one of my favorite underrated character actors.

People have different taste though, that's for sure.


And here I thought you had a crush on Aunt Becky. :)
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Re: OT - Cable Alternatives
« Reply #338 on: October 23, 2019, 06:58:10 PM »
I like the Bosch series, read all the books too. 

The Last Kingdom was very good, read all those books as well.  Bernard Cornwell.
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« Reply #339 on: October 23, 2019, 07:06:56 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on October 23, 2019, 06:50:01 PM
And here I thought you had a crush on Aunt Becky. :)
Everyone had a crush on Aunt Becky. 
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« Reply #340 on: October 23, 2019, 07:22:00 PM »
A different kinda crush, today. Heh.


Anyway, you'd have to have met UTee to get that reference. Really.
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« Reply #341 on: October 23, 2019, 07:24:58 PM »
The Walking Dead was filmed around here, I never liked it.  Sometimes the park is partly closed for some production of something.
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« Reply #342 on: October 23, 2019, 08:16:36 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on October 23, 2019, 07:22:00 PM
A different kinda crush, today. Heh.


Anyway, you'd have to have met UTee to get that reference. Really.
Ha,  no doubt I have a thing for Aunt Becky. :)  No mullet though, not anymore.
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« Reply #343 on: October 23, 2019, 09:15:31 PM »
Oh one other thing, I see a lot of people that are interested in OTA broadcasts, thinking they need to buy a special "digital antenna." 

You don't.

Here in the US, the radio frequency carrier signal for a television broadcast is transmitted, and received, in the same way it has been for 8 decades or so.  The content within that carrier wave is encoded differently, using digital modulation schemes rather than analog modulation schemes, but it's the tuner, not the antenna, that performs that decoding process.

There has certainly been some improvement in antenna technology and manufacturing since most of us last used them in the 70s/80s, so buying a new one rather than using your old rabbit ears could certainly provide better results. Even still, a lot of folks are digging up and dusting off their old outdoor aerial arrays that were ubiquitous in the 60s/70s, and they're working quite well for receiving modern OTA broadcast signals.

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Re: OT - Cable Alternatives
« Reply #344 on: October 23, 2019, 09:51:41 PM »
Marketing lies.
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« Reply #345 on: October 24, 2019, 09:58:01 AM »
Maybe. I think some of it, many years back, was related to Marketing.

But at this point I think there's just so much confusion in the market, that if they DON'T advertise/brand their products as "digital antennas" then the public won't buy them.

Either way, just know that your old antennas will work just fine, but some of the newer antennas on the market have improved technology and quality.

My dad still has his giant old outdoor aerial array out behind his shed.  I'm thinking about digging it out, cleaning it up, and installing at my house.  I'm sure my HOA will love it! :)
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« Reply #346 on: October 24, 2019, 10:05:11 AM »
true, it's the tuner in the newer TVs that changed

purchasing the Digital converter box that sat between the antenna and the old school TV was the deal, until you upgraded the TV
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« Reply #347 on: October 24, 2019, 10:12:42 AM »
All TVs sold in the USA since...2007 I think...have digital tuners installed.

I still have one TV from 2005 with no digital tuner.  It also doesn't have HDMI inputs, only component and composite.  At this point, the only device I have that can feed video to it is an old DVD player so it's likely on the way out.
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« Reply #348 on: October 24, 2019, 10:16:37 AM »
some folks think they get a screaming deal on a TV when they are simply buying a monitor without the tuner

then they wonder why the "cable" won't work
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« Reply #349 on: October 24, 2019, 10:25:55 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on October 24, 2019, 10:16:37 AM
some folks think they get a screaming deal on a TV when they are simply buying a monitor without the tuner

then they wonder why the "cable" won't work
For sure.


Of course I haven't used the internal tuner on any of my TVs in... decades probably.  Between set top boxes, wifi streaming devices, and native smart TV wifi streaming apps, I haven't plugged an antenna or direct source into any of my TVs since the early 2000s.

That's true of everything except the TVs in the RV.  For those I have a really good rooftop Winegard antenna that brings in signals I never knew existed locally. 
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