During a rough financial period a few years ago my wife and I decided it was time to get rid of cable TV. At the time we were paying $130 / month for internet and TV services through Comcast Cable. We had an HD box and a few premium channels. One day we sat down and calculated that just TV entertainment was costing us about $840/year, the price of a short family vacation! We also came to the conclusion that the majority of the content we watched was On-Demand programming. Our kids would sit and watch the same shows over and over. Why were we paying for all these channels that we didn’t need? (especially when most of the content was garbage) We knew that we couldn’t ditch the whole package because we still needed solid internet access. DSL would be too slow and 4G networks like Clear weren’t available in our town yet and would likely be too slow also. So we cancelled all TV services and kept our high-speed Comcast internet at $59.95/month. After researching OTA (over-the-air) TV broadcasts I decided to go with a roof-mounted antenna from Terk which I purchased from Newegg. Mounting the antenna was

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