We installed an antenna at our office in Nashville, but we're having a
problem picking up the local ABC, though we can get the other local
channels.

At home, I live in Smyrna, and I'm just a little too far out to get good
reception on all channels....


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Gibson Prichard <[email protected]>wrote:

> Your best bet for those locals is an antenna, which has no recurring cost.
> If you can't stomach the thought of an antenna, Comcast has Digital
> Terminal Adatapters (DTA) available, including an HD version with HDMI out
> for a nominal fee.
> I was hit with this at my office this week and we opted to go with
> antennas in lieu of the DTA boxes, but we have over 80 television sets that
> would need those boxes and that was too much.
>
> Gibson Prichard
> Nashville, TN
> [email protected]
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Evan Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This most likely comes from the retransmission consent contracts with the
>> ota providers. Comcast probably now pays the ota providers for
>> retransmission but stated they are shutting down the unencrypted feed. I
>> would research things outside of Comcast with this situation as they may
>> not be the evil culprit here.
>>  On Feb 28, 2014 11:29 AM, "Chris McQuistion" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I've received some letters from Comcast lately, explaining that they
>>> were no longer going to be broadcasting any analog channels over the wire
>>> and clients would need cable boxes (DTA's) to tune in channels.  I
>>> (foolishly) believed that they were going to leave the digital ClearQAM
>>> channels alone and HDTV's with tuners would still be able to tune in the
>>> local HD channels (local ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, etc).
>>>
>>> It appears I was wrong about that and Comcast has taken away the
>>> ClearQAM channels and is no longer broadcasting those any more.
>>>
>>> Anyone know what to do about this?  Is Comcast within their legal right
>>> to do this?  Whether they are or not, is there anything that can we can do
>>> about it?  I have a home DVR system that records off ClearQAM, as do many
>>> of my friends and family.  None of those are working, now.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
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