Arkady Renko Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I will be moving into my first home in the Rochester area and am looking to cut expenses. My wife and I have an HDTV and we are wondering how good the HD reception is with an indoor antenna in the Penfield/Fairport area specifically. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACor58 Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I will be moving into my first home in the Rochester area and am looking to cut expenses. My wife and I have an HDTV and we are wondering how good the HD reception is with an indoor antenna in the Penfield/Fairport area specifically. Any thoughts? Not very good. I have a very nice, A/C powered HDTV antenna that I used when I lived in the Park Ave area because Time Warner did not have Fox in HD for football. I moved to Fairport a few months back and tried using it for the two weeks before Time Warner could do my install and the HD Indoor antenna did not work at all. If you are moving to Fairport you can use all of the money you save on Electricity (I ran my central A/C for the whole month of July and my bill was $38) and buy cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkady Renko Posted August 7, 2008 Author Share Posted August 7, 2008 Not very good. I have a very nice, A/C powered HDTV antenna that I used when I lived in the Park Ave area because Time Warner did not have Fox in HD for football. I moved to Fairport a few months back and tried using it for the two weeks before Time Warner could do my install and the HD Indoor antenna did not work at all. If you are moving to Fairport you can use all of the money you save on Electricity (I ran my central A/C for the whole month of July and my bill was $38) and buy cable. I won't be getting Fairport electric unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UConn James Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Ark, You might start here. Fill in your street address and it will give you a read-out of the digital channels that you might expect to pull in. (In my experience, antennaweb is a little on the conservative side... I'm in NE CT in a "low signal spot" and for some stations/directions that's true, but I get in some Boston stations all the same). With an indoor antenna, your range is somewhat limited, but roughly, the Rochester stations' towers are ~7 miles away and broadcasting 7 stations, so it should be OK with just the rabbit ears... in fact, being so close, that's probably ideal; a larger outdoor antenna can overload your tuner. 'Course, every place's reception is different, but in WNY, it starts getting flatland-ish, which is ideal. I started a thread in the consumer forum about my outdoor antenna odyssey. ("Digital is a finicky B word!") The digital transition is pretty sweet in a lot of ways and it has a lot of promise (esp. if/when companies put out more sensitive tuners rather than the cheapo "tin can" CECB ones they're using to get rid of their old stock while silicone tuners for some time now have been shown to be much better for signal). For people who just want a clear picture but don't really care for the content or cost of cable, it does the job. Do post your results here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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