Re: [PLUG] MythTV can't tune ABC via LEAF

[Tlbox-verizon <tlbox@verizon.net>]

Despite touting high def, cable typically compresses the crap out of their signals. Over the air HD is always going to look better.

> On Jun 8, 2019, at 20:11, Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> I've got an HD rabbit ears antenna I picked up for about $12 when I
> finally got an HD TV in 2012. I haven't changed my channel settings
> since then. I usually watch on cable but I just gave the antenna a try
> to see if anything had changed. I can confirm that channels 6 and 12
> both look fine to me.
> 
> Full disclosure -- I have an unobstructed view of the antenna farm in
> Roxborough out my window.
> 
> Also, I'd forgotten how much better baseball looks on broadcast TV
> than on cable!
> 
> Walt
> 
>> On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 07:33:01PM -0400, Rachel plays Linux wrote:
>> Channels 6 and 12 gave always been more trouble for us ever since the
>> digital switch. We're in our third month of YouTube tv now, though, so I
>> can't say whether anything has changed recently.
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jun 1, 2019, 5:52 PM JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've always had a problem tuning in ABC via my LEAF antenna for MythTV,
>>> but it mostly worked.  In the last 2-3 weeks it seems like it's not
>>> working at all anymore, at least via the HD HomeRun 2 tuner I have.
>>> 
>>> Is anyone else having problems or does anyone know if something changed
>>> recently?  Is anyone else still fiddling with broadcast at all, or is
>>> everyone doing some kind of streaming?  We have Netflix and Amazon
>>> Prime, but that only goes so far.
>>> 
>>> Clues?  TIA,
>>> JP
>>> 
>>> PS--it seems like a lot of PBS stuff is on Netflix or Amazon, but I've
>>> found that the Roku PBS app silently crashes when Pi-hole blocks
>>> doubleclick.net, which I find unacceptable
>>> (
>>> https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/12000047549-when-i-try-to-play-a-video-on-my-roku-device-the-pbs-channel-shuts-down-and-i-m-returned-to-the-roku
>>> ).
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