Also, the author is wrong. NBC broadcast the opening ceremonies at 7am [0]. The author must have seen a rebroadcast.
[0] https://sports.nbcsports.com/2021/07/23/when-do-the-tokyo-ol...
I know some people have issues getting a signal over the air (live in an apartment, too far from source), but usually when I talk to people about broadcast they just have some weird hangup about buying a $10 antenna and connecting it to their television.
they just have some weird hangup about buying a $10 antenna and connecting it to their television.
Windows work too, depending on how your room is oriented relative to the nearest broadcast tower.
As far as distribution, I connect my antenna to an HDHomeRun device. I can either stream directly from the device, use a DLNA client on my LAN, or I also have it hooked into Plex server for DVR and live remote viewing.
A basic HDHomeRun device goes for around $100 but I'm sure you can pick up an older model on eBay for less. You could even bridge it into a raspberry pi or some other wifi device so that you don't need to run Ethernet cables around.
This doesn't work for everyone. When I put one up, I had to get a $100 directional antenna, a signal booster and mount it in the attic. Even then we had difficulty picking up some stations. Granted our neighborhood is in a big region, a good ways out and in a large depression.
You can also try under, over, or around the side of a door, or through a window, using a small section of flat coax like this [1].
An alternative I've considered is an Amazon Fire TV Recast [2]. That's an OTA DVR that physically connects to an antenna and power, and then can stream live or recorded content over your Wifi to an Amazon Fire TV Stick plugged into your TV.
With that you only need to get the antenna to wherever you put the Recast. If your antenna was on the roof, for example, you could place the Recast in your attic. Then you only need to go trough one wall or through an attic vent.
I've been wondering if a Recast could reasonably be powered by a battery and put in a waterproof box outside, so that (1) there would be no need to run the antenna wire into the house, and (2) you might not need to tie the antenna ground to the house ground (which can be a real pain if you want to follow code and the places where you can get good reception are nowhere near your house's grounding rod).
[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DVKOOA2
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Fire-TV-Recast-over-the-air-DVR-500GB...
A few years ago I tried to get OTA to watch the Oscars. This was after the 2009 digital switchover. I did some research and bought a couple different antennas, looked online so they could be directed at the intended tower. I got nothing. It may have been because the signal was blocked by a mountain, but I lived near UCLA in Los Angeles at the time.
With streaming and cable as competition there just isn't incentive on the broadcast and receiving side to set up a good enough system for a lot of people.
As the OP of the article stated, this is actually rather frustrating to do in practice.
The problem to me is they aren't showing replays that I feel a lot of people want to see on air, so you can't watch at a bar/restaurant. This to me is the major problem with sports on streaming. People like to watch at bars, but bars often don't have streaming devices on hand or a staff that wants to deal with it.
I rarely watch live TV, but it helps that I can use my TV login to stream most of the channels on-demand.
Seriously though, I got tired of switching to different streaming providers when one of them suddenly lost access to some specific content that I was interested in. Cable now is just another streaming content provider.
Sure, it exists, not like there's nobody, but I'm pretty sure it's less than half in total.
In any case, no one has addressed the problem of sports bars/bars being unable to service customers on streaming exclusive events.
The same one as me, apparently. I don't know a single person who has cable or satellite either.
AIUI, these things typically described as “if you have cable TV” apply to most cable, satellite, and internet multichannel video programming distributors (so, yes, cable/satellite, but also Youtube TV and similar online services.)
They have streams with commentary for the major events that they are televising but you can also watch the raw international streams with no commentary for everything else.
The streams are recorded and available at any time too.
If it's available in the US, or you have a VPN, I'd look into that.
This is the site mentioned and linked to in the article as a "site where you can actually watch live. And they have replays… of preliminary matches"
I've also found out to be quite good-- not sure why the author is so negative of it.
For me, I had Youtube TV record everything, but NBC doesn't show everything, and its completely US centric coverage (I like watching the competition). On demand wasn't helpful either.
I tried Peacock (NBC's app) thinking that's where they were hiding all of their coverage. And again not everything is there, and much of it is behind paywall.
Fortunately, my wife clicked on the Olympics section of our Roku and it prompted us to install the NBC Olympics app. Then I had to sign into it, because it only provides 30 mins of viewing without a cable plan. On top of that they are injecting a lot of commercials into the programming, so I'm not sure why they couldn't air all of it for free (with commercials)
If you have a raspberry pi you can probably set up a vpn at a house with cable and watch it that way. For my provider I think they simply match the IP to the ISP (the login was automatic).
Cable is only related if you own a cable company and want to continue making money for being an unnecessary middleman.