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Old 06-26-2015, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Villages Audio Video View Post
So Comcast should pipe the over the air transmissions into every home over there network for free? Does that apply to CenturyLink and Brighthouse?
I would just point out that we were not getting the local channels for free. You had to pay for at least basic service. Then you could choose to let your TV tuner find the available unscrambled channels, or use the digital transport adapter to receive the scambled channels. Whichever you chose, it was aproximately the same few channels.

The problem is, when you use the DTA, the picture quality is degraded, the picture size is not consitent from channel to channel or show to show, you have to put up with gray bars or distorted images, etc.