My house came with satellite and an antenna in the attic. Last year, to explore this idea, I got a fringe antenna, a big one at 3′ X 4′ with a screen and lots of bow ties. On Friday, the digital converter came in from Amazon and I climbed into the attic to see what the situation was. The cable distribution is close to the attic entrance, thank God. The ends on the antenna are messed up. It was easierss to use my new antenna. I cut the existing line and attached the antenna to it. It worked with a typically crummy signal on some channels and clear on others. Then on the farthest room I connected the CM 7000 converter box and was stunned at the clear picture. Actually, much clearer than cable. To be clear. The free Over The Air digital is drastically sharper and crisper on my standard TV than the digital cable from Suddenlink. For years, I thought this was due to TiVo. Hah! About 16 channels come in. After filtering out the spanish and religious channels I have about 12. The box is expensive at $60 and I need one for every TV. Yeah, coupon program whatever. Tivo is hooked and and controls the digital converter box instead of the digital cable box. It’s working fine. Everything works pretty good.
I’m with Suddenlink. I’d be delighted to investigate why you were not getting a clear picture with our service and determine if we can resolve that for you … if you’re interested. You can reach me at pete.abel@suddenlink.com.
Yeah thanks, but I didn’t drop the cable for poor reception. I dropped it because I don’t like being forced to support channels I don’t watch and at worst channels I stridently disagree with like the Catholic channel. And channels who repeatedly cancel popular successful shows like Stargate, Rome, and Deadwood in order to put on cheap useless reality TV drivel. And being forced to watch commercials running excessively taking up the lower 1/3 of the story that I’m actually interest in seeing. In short, nothing is on the cable channels that is worth my $90/mo.