Anyone use an Over The Air Antenna for HD?

[fitty76]

If you are how does the picture look? I've heard that Antennas offer the best HD pictures. Wondering if anyone here uses one.

[KendrickPanther]

Yeah I do. The picture depends on your antenna. If you buy a fancy one and put it on your roof it will give you a great picture. However any sort of bad weather will knock out the digital picture completely. In the old days antenna signal would just get fuzzy but digital signal just drops completely. Also you need to be living close to Charlotte. You get out in the country and there is no signal to pick up. I tried taking my TV camping in Greenville, SC and I couldn't watch anything. If you can afford a cable/uverse/dish plan then it will be much better but I've had antenna TV all my life living in Gastonia and it works just fine.

[Chimera]

Its usually pretty good, though I rarely use it. I believe most of the signals are 720p with a few 1080i thrown in. I don't think I've seen 1080p over the air.

My biggest gripe is how long it takes to tune in all the channels. I have two HDTVs with with Dish and with rabbit ears. They both take about a half hour or more to search and find all the channels. But you will get tons of extra channels.

This, of course, depends on two things: 1 you having a TV with a digital tuner. I'm assuming you do, but just making sure. 2 you live in an area where you can pick the signal up.

[Panthers128]

http://www.amazon.com/Paper-Thin-Leaf-Indoor-Antenna/dp/B004QK7HI8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339399260&sr=8-1&keywords=leaf

I have one of these. The signal is good but you have to move the antenna around. I think it's related to lighting and reflection. It works well in some areas during the day and other areas at night. I don't pay for cable. I use the antenna for local channels and it works great. Fits my needs since I don't watch television much.

[Jase]

I suspend my directv over the summer and works pretty well to use an antenna (if your TV has a tuner built-in, a lot don't.).

You are right about getting the best picture. TWC, directv and the like compress the HD signal and often it's pretty easy to see artifacts when watching certain images. When it comes over the air, it isn't compressed.

[CatofWar]

I bought this one http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/RCA-ANT1450B-TV-Antenna/3440637/product.html?cid=202290&kid=9553000357392&track=pspla&adtype=pla&kw=%7Bkeyword%7D and it works great. Can lay it flat or hang it on the wall. Picture quality is superb. It pulls in around 40 channels.

[fitty76]

appreciate the help.

[Kevin Greene]

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=109&cp_id=10901&cs_id=1090102&p_id=4730&seq=1&format=2

[Chimera]

Remember something before you go spend too much money.... there is no such thing as an "HDTV antenna"

Your grandmother's old set of rabbit ears will pick up digital, uncompressed HD channels. They are broadcast on the same UHF and VHF spectrum that they used before cable and satellite.

[Niner National]

Remember something before you go spend too much money.... there is no such thing as an "HDTV antenna"

Your grandmother's old set of rabbit ears will pick up digital, uncompressed HD channels. They are broadcast on the same UHF and VHF spectrum that they used before cable and satellite.

This.

And many of the older antennas will actually work better too.

[CatofWar]

I spent less than 20 on the one I got and it works great.

[Crixtala]

http://www.amazon.co...1&keywords=leaf

I have one of these. The signal is good but you have to move the antenna around. I think it's related to lighting and reflection. It works well in some areas during the day and other areas at night. I don't pay for cable. I use the antenna for local channels and it works great. Fits my needs since I don't watch television much.

my wife and i bought one of these last week... showed up friday and i've been trying to get it working today. so far, i've been able to pick up three, THREE fuging channels. i live in the Northlake area, so i should be able to pick up plenty of channels, but no dice. only one HD channel out of the three, and it's PBS. this junk is heading back asap. it's even the USB powered, $75 version... junk

http://www.monoprice...&seq=1&format=2

what's the word on this? this obviously doesn't have adjustable rabbit ears to help fine tune for direction.

i just wanna keep TWC from getting anymore of my money but need my football this fall. besides that, i'm moving to the hulu plus/netflix route

[Hotsauce]

my wife and i bought one of these last week... showed up friday and i've been trying to get it working today. so far, i've been able to pick up three, THREE fuging channels. i live in the Northlake area, so i should be able to pick up plenty of channels, but no dice. only one HD channel out of the three, and it's PBS. this junk is heading back asap. it's even the USB powered, $75 version... junk

what's the word on this? this obviously doesn't have adjustable rabbit ears to help fine tune for direction.

i just wanna keep TWC from getting anymore of my money but need my football this fall. besides that, i'm moving to the hulu plus/netflix route

I lived in Northlake area from 2006-2008 (Preston Village). I bought a couple of hd attennas. The only one I could get to work had Huge rabbit ears, and you had to plug it into the AC outlet and get power. I had to position it on the 2nd story window just to get reception. When I did finally get reception, I got the Panther games in crystal clear images. There was an alternet channe

Fox had, that had no announcers, just stadium sound. So I would crank up the surround sound system, and have to listen to the announcers in the stadium....it was like being at the game and quite nice!

[CosmoGirl]

When I lived in Cornelius, I had rabbit ears and got great signal. The ones that plug in do get a better signal strength. The person living in my house there now got cable and I can't believe the difference in how much better my picture was (on the same tv) with the rabbit ears.