We must RETVRN
nah
>>220994111You now remember when 50% of homes in any given neighborhood had one of these sticking off of it
>>220994111I've been doing it for over a decade. There's just no point in paying for cable. OTA TV has so much potential with sub channels and we're wasting it mostly.
>>220994222Checking those trips.Fond memories of going to friends homes with the giant satellite dish in the backyard. Like 800 fucking channels.
>>220994243
Who /heroesandicons/ here?
>>220994511It's pretty nice watching Trek in the evening.
>>220994483>Like 800 fucking channels.I always heard "100s of channels" touted with the old style dishes but in practice you were just tuning between the same handful. Most were uninteresting or foreign and you had to wait for the dish to move to change channels. The smaller ones were a big improvement
>>220994529>you had to wait for the dish to move to change channels.What bootleg system were you using that you were changing between satellites to change the channel?
>>220994111I don't know if it counts as RETVRNING, but Pluto and Tubi has a lot of Kino for free.
I use an antenna, get about 100 channels...less than a dozen I actually use. If you're trying to watch local sports it's the best option...provided no blackout nonsense or their own network...go to hell Cubs.
>>220994511I have all those shows except on Voyager on BD/DVD. And TNG comes with the broadcast previews.
>>220994609>or their own networkI'm livid when I reminded of how much that they've moved from OTA, to cable, and then to streaming. Let me watch major games, you fucks! We're all tired of getting nickled and dimed!
>>2209941119 available channels mostly consisting of reality TV slop and ads?
>>220994222direct TV in like early 2000s was better than Netflix has ever been
>>220994555Dumb fuck
>>220994765Do you even know how satelite TV works? You're not moving the dish. The satelites are in a geo-stationary orbit. You point it once at the satelite because it appears fixed above the Earth.
>>220994111>We must RETVRNAre you under the impression no one uses antenna anymore? Because the signal has never been clearer and crisper than now for OTA, once they went to a digital signal back in the 00's.
>>220994111how could these recieve flawless video that never had to buffer while the internet took forever to even be able to stream ultra low res video
>>220994827Because its coming from a powerful broadcast antenna, and not getting funneled down copper wires. Also it wasn't "flawless" by any stretch of the imagination, until they switched from analog signal to digital it increased, but before that you got a blurry image full of static. Hell half the time you have to tune into an AM broadcast of the station on the radio if you wanted clear sound.
>>220994789Well zoomie let an unc tell you how it workedThe big dishes existed before the small ones, and they worked by picking up unencrypted feeds from numerous satellites. There was a tuning box for them and when you wanted to go from one feed to another feed on a different satellite, the tuner would make the dish move so it was aimed at the new satellite. It would take several seconds for the dish to move to the new position.When direcTV and Dish Network came along, they were using encrypted feeds from one satellite, so they could use smaller antennas that didn't need to move from satellite to satellite. Their feeds were encrypted and you couldn't use your big old dish with them, at least not very easily. Hope this clears things up.
>>220994873
I still have my dad's old antenna tuner.
>>220994923In that era, the satellites were for transmitting to other ground based stations/rebroadcating. It was not for residential viewing. Residential satellite TV in that era was for enthusiasts. I really, absolutely, totally believe your friend's dad worked at Nintendo too.
>>220994975Fuck those things. I got dropped off at my grandparents farm every summer as a child and I remember the misery of trying to get this fucking thing to line up to a station.
>>220995009Thanks for agreeing with me
>>220995169>All my friends had these huge dishes in their backyards.No they didn't. You probably saw large dishes outside of TV stations and are remembering things poorly because you were a CHILD.
>>220995341People had them, especially in areas where cable was not available.
>>220995341NTA but one of my uncles had one of these in their yards in the 90s. I never learned much about how many channels they had though.
>>220995341Dumb fuck
>>220994111My village still use these.
>>220995430Sure doesn't look motorized.
>>220994111Ever since the move to digital I don't think I'm even in range of OTA broadcasts
>>220994222cuck stamp
>>220995936That's because that pic is the front. The motors are on the back.
>>220996000How far away are you from the nearest tv stations?
SBC, qbittorrent, yottamaster, Jellyfin, dont need to worry about anything else
>>220994111We already did.
>>2209973392 hours
>>2209974272 hours at light speed is well outside of antenna range. Good luck
