To promote the Grand Rapids Technology Partnership’s (GRTP) goals of providing technology education and promoting technology use in the region, GRTP Partner Will Hartwell is writing the “Cutting the Cord” series. In this series, Will discusses how he has replaced traditional paid television service with free alternatives through the use of an Over-The-Air antenna and a Home Theater PC.
First things first.
To justify cancelling pay TV, I would first need to determine which TV networks I could receive, for free, with an Over The Air (OTA) antenna. Ideally, a solid antenna would provide me free access to the four major networks (ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC) as well as a number of other minor offerings (The CW, PBS, etc.).
Before I get into things I should note that there is no such thing as an “HD” antenna. All TV antennas are capable of picking up HD…
