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[QUOTE=&quot;MrPogi, post: 74175, member: 5542&quot;]INCREASING. I have a list of people waiting for spring so I can put antenna on their roof, and I have so many requests for my home made antennas that I can't keep up. It's not just the economy, although its a large part of it. TV antennas are a hot video accessory these days for home theater owners - even those with pay TV. Better HD quality and multicasting are the big draw. And yea, I have seen numbers from the antenna manufacturers, and sales are on the increase as word gets out about OTA: &quot;It's not your father's antenna TV&quot;. And as soon as someone here gets wise to the fact that we have only one Spanish channel here - V-me - and start broadcasting even ONE Spanish network, those numbers for me will go through the roof ( Hispanic viewers are the lagest OTA demographic there is)Don't forget the pay TV industry. They don't want the TV spectrum for themselves, but it's in their own self interest to limit competition, and they have very deep pockets from the money people gladly forked over in the years before digital TV - cable has convinced most people that paying for TV is the only way to see TV. And don't forget the constant media blitz: yesterday's mail had 6 ads from the two sattelite providers in the weekly advertising flyer with their &quot;bait and switch&quot; offers, Comcast sent me a nice letter telling me I could get their &quot;Triple Play&quot; bundle for &quot;ONLY&quot; $99.00 (and increasing to redonkulous levels after the introductory price runs out). DirecTV also sent me their monthly letter begging me to come back. Kinda like the EX who took all your money and cheated on you begging you to take her back. AS IF! And lets not forget the daily barrage of TV ads we see for pay TV. And when was the last time you saw a commercial or got an ad for FREE OTA TV? You have to go looking for someone to install your antenna if you can't do it yourself. Antenna installers and broadcast stations don't exactly knock on your door and tell you about it. Comcast can afford to do that, and they often do.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="MrPogi, post: 74175, member: 5542"]INCREASING. I have a list of people waiting for spring so I can put antenna on their roof, and I have so many requests for my home made antennas that I can't keep up. It's not just the economy, although its a large part of it. TV antennas are a hot video accessory these days for home theater owners - even those with pay TV. Better HD quality and multicasting are the big draw. And yea, I have seen numbers from the antenna manufacturers, and sales are on the increase as word gets out about OTA: "It's not your father's antenna TV". And as soon as someone here gets wise to the fact that we have only one Spanish channel here - V-me - and start broadcasting even ONE Spanish network, those numbers for me will go through the roof ( Hispanic viewers are the lagest OTA demographic there is) Don't forget the pay TV industry. They don't want the TV spectrum for themselves, but it's in their own self interest to limit competition, and they have very deep pockets from the money people gladly forked over in the years before digital TV - cable has convinced most people that paying for TV is the only way to see TV. And don't forget the constant media blitz: yesterday's mail had 6 ads from the two sattelite providers in the weekly advertising flyer with their "bait and switch" offers, Comcast sent me a nice letter telling me I could get their "Triple Play" bundle for "ONLY" $99.00 (and increasing to redonkulous levels after the introductory price runs out). DirecTV also sent me their monthly letter begging me to come back. Kinda like the EX who took all your money and cheated on you begging you to take her back. AS IF! And lets not forget the daily barrage of TV ads we see for pay TV. And when was the last time you saw a commercial or got an ad for FREE OTA TV? You have to go looking for someone to install your antenna if you can't do it yourself. Antenna installers and broadcast stations don't exactly knock on your door and tell you about it. Comcast can afford to do that, and they often do.[/QUOTE]

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