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OK ... it's "Holiday Specials" out the ass, including
"It's A Wonderful Life", over and over on half the
channels.

Aside, how many times can I watch "Harry Potter"
and "Avengers" movies ?

"Potter" - bunch of little Wokie back-stabbers ...)

Some of the live cops shows are distracting - clue,
NEVER believe the women, they come up with an
alternate reality every 60 seconds.

SO ... I guess it's "online" shit. Don't love
it actually, but it's the only refuge. Found
some 60s "Dr. Who" stuff, various old "Trek" ...

Hmm ... somebody did some (almost passably) good
follow-on Treks, YT, that often included some of
the original casts. The dead Commodore Decker
apparently did have a past/future :-)

YT ... look for some of the ancient 'serials'
that used to come before the main movie.
"Commander Cody" stuff is fun ! Never mind
the physics. There's even some "Batman" type
stuff from the 40s/50s, "Shadow", stuff they
more recently put tens/hundreds of millions
into re-doing with more FX and less plot.

"Pluto" has some interesting stuff too - but
you can't set to low-rez, important to
the bandwidth-deprived like me. (Clue, 5G
wireless is only good if you like live
right UNDER the fuckin' antenna - lucky
when I get ONE bar .....)

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From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

On 07 Dec 2025, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> posted some news:lMGcnZLHYZYf9av0nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@giganews.com:

OK ... it's "Holiday Specials" out the ass, including
"It's A Wonderful Life", over and over on half the
channels.

Aside, how many times can I watch "Harry Potter"
and "Avengers" movies ?

"Potter" - bunch of little Wokie back-stabbers ...)

Some of the live cops shows are distracting - clue,
NEVER believe the women, they come up with an
alternate reality every 60 seconds.

SO ... I guess it's "online" shit. Don't love
it actually, but it's the only refuge. Found
some 60s "Dr. Who" stuff, various old "Trek" ...

Hmm ... somebody did some (almost passably) good
follow-on Treks, YT, that often included some of
the original casts. The dead Commodore Decker
apparently did have a past/future :-)

YT ... look for some of the ancient 'serials'
that used to come before the main movie.
"Commander Cody" stuff is fun ! Never mind
the physics. There's even some "Batman" type
stuff from the 40s/50s, "Shadow", stuff they
more recently put tens/hundreds of millions
into re-doing with more FX and less plot.

"Pluto" has some interesting stuff too - but
you can't set to low-rez, important to
the bandwidth-deprived like me. (Clue, 5G
wireless is only good if you like live
right UNDER the fuckin' antenna - lucky
when I get ONE bar .....)

OTA in the attic - 80+ channels, closest repeater transmitters are 50+
miles @90-#E, junk stuff ION, Dr Phil crap, multilanguage stuff. NBC, Fox, ABC. Couldn't get CBS and as power went down in the evening, tiling.

OTA outside - 140+ channels, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox etc. from TX1 There are
two major transmitters 65+ miles in an almost 180-# azimuth N/S. If I
counted the dupe channels from TX2, add another 26. All the major shows
are DTV and much clearer than cable content which is always compressed.

In total there are 346 channels available, half other language than
English.

Same antenna in attic moved to roof.

https://www.amazon.com/GE-Outdoor-Supports-Included-
Resistant/dp/B01MYMVPVX

Have this antennas as well. It has a narrower angle of reception but
quality is great.

https://www.amazon.com/GE-Supports-Included-Resistant-33685/dp/B01HSSAX0I

https://otadtv.com/tvtower/
https://www.titantv.com/

With all the crap on Roku, Amazon, OTA and Samsung, there's thousands
of choices. That doesn't include the additional Kodi and web streaming
from a computer connected to the TV.


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From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

On 12/25/25 18:50, High Desert wrote:

On 07 Dec 2025, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> posted some news:lMGcnZLHYZYf9av0nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@giganews.com:

OK ... it's "Holiday Specials" out the ass, including
"It's A Wonderful Life", over and over on half the
channels.

Aside, how many times can I watch "Harry Potter"
and "Avengers" movies ?

"Potter" - bunch of little Wokie back-stabbers ...)

Some of the live cops shows are distracting - clue,
NEVER believe the women, they come up with an
alternate reality every 60 seconds.

SO ... I guess it's "online" shit. Don't love
it actually, but it's the only refuge. Found
some 60s "Dr. Who" stuff, various old "Trek" ...

Hmm ... somebody did some (almost passably) good
follow-on Treks, YT, that often included some of
the original casts. The dead Commodore Decker
apparently did have a past/future :-)

YT ... look for some of the ancient 'serials'
that used to come before the main movie.
"Commander Cody" stuff is fun ! Never mind
the physics. There's even some "Batman" type
stuff from the 40s/50s, "Shadow", stuff they
more recently put tens/hundreds of millions
into re-doing with more FX and less plot.

"Pluto" has some interesting stuff too - but
you can't set to low-rez, important to
the bandwidth-deprived like me. (Clue, 5G
wireless is only good if you like live
right UNDER the fuckin' antenna - lucky
when I get ONE bar .....)

OTA in the attic - 80+ channels, closest repeater transmitters are 50+
miles @90-#E, junk stuff ION, Dr Phil crap, multilanguage stuff. NBC, Fox, ABC. Couldn't get CBS and as power went down in the evening, tiling.

OTA outside - 140+ channels, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox etc. from TX1 There are
two major transmitters 65+ miles in an almost 180-# azimuth N/S. If I
counted the dupe channels from TX2, add another 26. All the major shows
are DTV and much clearer than cable content which is always compressed.

In total there are 346 channels available, half other language than
English.

Same antenna in attic moved to roof.

https://www.amazon.com/GE-Outdoor-Supports-Included-
Resistant/dp/B01MYMVPVX

Have this antennas as well. It has a narrower angle of reception but
quality is great.

https://www.amazon.com/GE-Supports-Included-Resistant-33685/dp/B01HSSAX0I

https://otadtv.com/tvtower/
https://www.titantv.com/

With all the crap on Roku, Amazon, OTA and Samsung, there's thousands
of choices. That doesn't include the additional Kodi and web streaming
from a computer connected to the TV.

Sorry, have an all-in-one desktop 5G router. NO external
antenna jack and NO place in the house where it seems to
get much of a better signal. Bummer !

DID buy a 'booster' rig ... but it's complicated and so
far as I can tell looks like a mini 5G antenna unto itself,
which might attract unwanted attention.

I can usually get a 1080p stream with little buffering
problems, usually. Not AS good today because everybody
is playing with their new toys provided by Santa.

Oh well, maybe someday the provider will add another
antenna station ....

And no, not very interested in any of those 'services'.
'Pluto' is a bit limited but free and requires no kind
of log ins - but DOES have 'commercials'. 'DailyMotion'
has even more 'commercials' and a more limited content.
Now, YouTube has started the damned "PROVE you're not
a robot" crap. Nope. Fuck 'em.

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