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Intro To Streaming As mentioned in Part 5, you can stream local channels into your home over the internet without an antenna. If that’s all you need, and you don’t care about recording, as long as you pay for your internet connection, you can get that for free....

Streaming Local Channels If you don’t want to bother with installing an antenna, and your only concern is getting your local channels, there is another option. Available in Denver and just a few other cities is an app called LOCAST. This is a non-profit organization...

Another Antenna Option If you don’t want to hang an antenna in your home, or repurpose the cables used for satellite or cable TV, you do have another option. There are several devices available that contain QAM tuners (needed to decode the digital video signal) AND...

ANTENNA LOCATION OPTIONS for Over The Air (OTA) signals If you have a good signal and want to install an antenna, you have several options. The simplest is to locate the antenna right next to the TV. This might not work for aesthetic reasons, as it does not always...

OVER THE AIR TV In 2009, the FCC mandated that all TV stations that broadcast over the air switch their antennas to broadcast digitally in High Definition. Because most TV’s manufactured since 2006 are equipped with a QAM (digital) tuner, this meant that many people...