Aereo without Comcast?

[Ken VanTassell]

Aereo has a couple of advantages over using an antenna. The Aereo service
for $8 per month includes 20 hours of DVR service. I have cable but yet I
also have Aereo to record network shows, and it works great. Much cheaper
than the cable dvr I used to have. Secondly, I can watch Aereo (including
recorded shows) on my iphone, ipad, or computer anywhere in the Boston DMA.

-Ken


On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Eli Polonsky <elipolo@earthlink.net> wrote:

> With an indoor non-amplified HDTV antenna less
> than half-way up the southwest facing side of
> Spring Hill in Somerville, I get the following
> channels free over the air with fine reception:
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> 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 24.1, 24.2,
> 24.3, 24.4, 25.1, 25.2, 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 28.1,
> 28.2, 38.1, 44.1, (44.2 is off the air), 44.3,
> 44.4, 48.1, 56.1, 56.2, 58.1, 58.2, 58.3, 58.4,
> 58.5, 58.6, 62.1, 62.2, 62.3, 66.1, 66.2, 68.1,
> 68.2, 68.3, 68.4
>
> Though some of these are mostly infomercial drek,
> and some are ethnic programming in languages that
> I can't understand, it's still 40 channels over
> the air for free. I still encounter many people
> who think that, since the HDTV switch in 2009,
> that there's no more free over-the-air TV at all,
> and that they must subscribe to cable, satellite,
> or a paid service like Aereo to watch anything
> at all, even just the nearby local channels!
>
> If the masses who believe that knew better, the
> cable companies would take a hit (there are many
> people who subscribe just to watch local channels
> and don't subscribe to the premium channels), and
> Aereo would be a dead in the water venture. In most
> urban areas, Aereo doesn't provide anything that
> can't be received for free with an antenna, and it
> provides even less in some areas.
>
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