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How can I pick up cable channels off a regular TV antenna? (The bunny ears)?
Earlier today my TV just show channel 3 and channel 4 so I did the hard reset where you ran through the channels and there was two options are there add channels 3 and 4 for said DVD player so for us or don't add channel 3 and 4 and I selected don't add channel 3 and 4 and now all of a sudden I'm picking up what looks to be cable channels I can even pick up the one American News Channel which I never could do before this so I'm wondering is this a new Roku TV update or I'm most likely going to have to subscribe later or is this going to be a thing I could do forever....i picked it up and have no clue how I did it? Lol.
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- RobsteriarkLv 74 months ago
The huge clue lies in the name: “cable TV”.
For cable TV channels you need a cable not an antenna.
A few channels you can get on almost any cable network may also be available by antenna and satellite, but those ones are also typically available via the internet as well.
All an antenna can get these days is Terrestrial Digital TV (DTV) which will also include a number of radio stations broadcast on DTV networks. DTV usually has to carry a free to view news channel to maintain access to all to a public broadcasting channel for emergency purposes.
Depending upon how far you are from the transmitter, an indoor antenna designed for the obsolete analogue TV broadcasting cannot usually do a even a halfway decent job with DTV as DTV signals are broadcast at signal strengths massively weaker than analogue channels were. That limits their broadcasting range and it limits their ability to penetrate into buildings.
There are now many indoor antennas which have been specially designed just for DTV which can give a reasonable result, but they’re still far inferior to an external antenna designed for DTV.
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