Jack TV Antenna Vs Satellite
for those that have used both: which is better? the jack tv antennea would be a lot easier to use compared to the satellite dish, so if it gets enough channels then i won't even bother with the dish.
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Jerry Roberts wrote:
Thanks. However, I've used Directv in the past and currently have Dish Network as my cable provider. I should have added that, I've read that the Jack TV is a lot better than the Winegard. And some people are getting 80+ channes with the Jack antennea. I don't believe everything I read on the internet, so I was wondering if there is any truth about the Jack TV getting as many channels as satellite.
While there might be isolated cases where someone received that number of channels you need to understand that none of these channels are going to be things like CNN, The Food Network, History Channel, etc. Those are paid cable type channels and require some kind of subscribed service to receive.
Additionally, someone showing a large number of received channels is getting channel 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, etc. so may not actually provide what you would consider unique channels or even normal viewing channels. Also, only the X.1 channels are HD. All others are SD. ABC might be on 7.1 and a 24 hour loop of the weather will be on 7.2 and paid advertising on 7.3 or Spanish language programming on 7.4.
You are never going to find anything comparable to satellite or cable with an OTA antenna but if all you are interested in is the major Network programming the OTA antennas do an excellent job as long as you are close enough to the TV towers to receive them. I did receive over 50 channels in the LA, CA area. I watched the NBC news at 5:00 and then went back to satellite for the rest of the time.
