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Who needs cable?
I watched Hockey Night in Canada the other night in stunning high definition (HD) [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] and I don’t pay a cent for cable or satellite. I’m one of a growing number of people who have gone back to the future and get their TV over the air with an antenna. The whole setup cost me about $175, or five months’ worth of basic cable. Not a bad price for about 20 channels of HD TV.
People of a certain age will look back on ‘rabbit ears’ without much enthusiasm. Over-the-air broadcasts in the days before cable was widely available were often like trying to make out what was going on inside a snow globe — when you could tune them in. But while today’s broadcasts [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] still have distance limitations,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they can deliver better picture and sound quality than cable or satellite.According to rules set up by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, broadcasts in major centres must all be digital by Aug. 31. (The only broadcaster in the GTA that has not yet gone digital is TVO.) This puts us about two years behind the U.S., where major network broadcasts made this transition in 2009.
The good news for those of us in the Golden Horseshoe is that with a good enough antenna [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] you can pick up the American networks based in Buffalo as well.If you go to YouTube and search for “install HD antenna” you’ll find plenty of videos that can help, and there are many ways to get the antenna onto your roof. I got a kit that lets you strap it to a chimney. Once the antenna is installed, you may need to tweak the direction a little with somebody inside the house watching the signal strength.
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