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And in the true spirit of l’entente cordiale, may I be the first to say: I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

So there!

I don’t mean this snarkily, but you guys are picking up TV signals through the air?

I can’t remember the last TV antenna I owned. I’m not sure you can even buy them with tuners built in anymore.

We don’t get many commercials because streaming.

But we have noticed a sufficiently high percentage, all out of proportion with reality, of the various approved victim groups in the all the new movies and made for streaming serials.

And commercials have, for years, portrayed us white American males, especially dads, as complete and utter morons constantly outsmarted, outwitted and outclassed by our children and our spouses (yes, females).
So I can’t say as I much miss TV ads at all.

Ah…skip…yes, the many late nights calling CQ back in the day.

@Uncle Badger — But I thought YOU were the silly English kəniggət? Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

Flatten the Economy! I, uh, mean, uh, the curve!

Hi Pupster – yes. Digital HD, not analogue, that went years ago. Streaming is available, of course, but we have tried both Amazon and Netflix and couldn’t find anything we wanted to watch.

Out here in the sticks, we don’t have cable TV, though BT has some half-arsed system that does the same thing through t’internet. That sucks too, apparently.

The tuner(s) are in the TV and the Panasonic hard drive recorder, never seen a tuner in an aerial so I assume our systems must be quite different.

Plus according to the advert Weasel posted, you live in Darkest England.

Electricity problems eh? Fire ants eat your transformers did they?

I am completely and utterly at a loss to understand how TV works here. I just hand the remote to a man and say, “Ogg! Find channel!”

Pupster, I get all my local TV (and then some) via the air here in the States. Digital antenna cost $15, is an unobtrusive 6×9 inches, plugs into the TV, scans for channels, and I get digital HD. No power connection needed unless I was somewhere waaay in the sticks and required boosting.

Thanks guys. Like I said, I didn’t want to sound snarky or tech superior or anything, we haven’t had a TV antenna anywhere I’ve lived since the 80’s.

I have only had cable or satellite since then, and only streaming services for the last 4-5 years. Now that pro football is unwatchable and college is almost as bad, I may not renew Hulu either this fall.

I can drive the remote, but JavaMan can’t stand it. I’m too slow, and I invariably fail to fast-forward through the commercials. He sits over in his La-Z-Boy and twitches until I leave the room, then he swipes the remote. He’s won’t ask for it, and he’s too polite to jerk it out of my hand.

He records almost everything we watch. I occasionally watch live news (Houston), but it’s very rare. JavaMan bought a Roku box (that’s the remote used to drive the system), and subscribes to YouTube TV (which serves as our unlimited recorder). We get Amazon TV with our Amazon Prime, and that’s it—all through the internet. And it’s enough, but I loathe, despise, and detest the whole setup (JavaMan does.not.care.) because there are no numbers assigned to the YouTube channels. You have to scroll endlessly down the list to find what you want. You can’t punch in a particular number that will take you to, for instance, HGTV. But this system is cheap.

This has pretty much killed TV for me. I no longer care, and the only reason I bother at all is so I can listen to Pandora after he goes to bed.