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Roku is a good choice for streamer if you are not already paying for Prime then the Fire stick is really cheap and very fast compared to an actual smart TV in some cases. If you have a smart TV, then you don't even need either, that's all built into the new OS based TVs. It all comes down to finding...

While I question whether multi-path or just plain old blocked signal is the root cause, A better antenna or position should help. With DTV, most people can do fine with a flat indoor antenna but maybe a directional roof areal is what you need. I do want to point out there are some pretty interesting...

ATSC should be generally immune to multipath because of error detection/correction in the digital data stream. Degraded images in DTV are usually lost data, either bits or akin to packets that the error correction cannot compensate for. and is typically due to low signal strength. OTA stations can c...

Dot matrix by the rate of release, should be all digital by all rights by now. I suspect there is a shortage of fresh content as well. Without staff writers that would be very inconsistent relying on independent contributors. Such a writer would probably need to be an engineer or at least engineer c...

Ya, this El Nino storm killed cable for almost a day, Watching the Grammys on OTA was a chore with all the audio dropouts. To be fair, my outdoor Aireal also blew down and was lying on its side.

"just have to figure out what cars / trucks have them." With many of the newest cars having basically a tablet computer embedded in the dash, it's not abundantly clear if these can be installed in a different vehicle or if they would even work with the CAN bus disconnected. If you are luck...

The market for OTA radio at home is a shadow of what it once was with all the competition from streaming, I pretty much listen to it only in the car. I did find the new form factor for "Portable Car Radio" to be rather interesting and maybe due for an upgrade in my old car.

and the rollout is already in jeopardy due to Patent disputes. (This may change again). And the Lawyers are doing their thing again. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/30/23897460/lg-drops-atsc-3-0-support-fcc-broadcast-tv https://www.via-la.com/licensing-2/atsc-3-0/ $ 0.30 per unit licensing fee, does...

seems that OTA is catching up with streaming and cable services. One question begs, how many stations are broadcasting now? your description implies new TVs won't also have a ATSC 1.0 Complient tuner as well, I think they will. my New TV still has a useless NTSC Analog tuner. I also expect older TVs...

possibly a video driver got updated or an actual bug fixed. Windows makes a lot of changes quietly.

I was thinking this one over and now I feel that a low-cost FM transmitter and a transistor radio adapted in some way (wiring mostly) would result in a workable system with little delay and only modest bandwidth compression. As long as the receiving radio has enough volume that is. For example https...

it's going to be tricky to pull off without creating a small delay and volume differential to that singularly de-wired speaker that might ruin the surround effect. One usually wants to drive paired speakers from the same amplifier. you might need to do whatever to both. With that caution, if you sea...

I wasn't familiar but found a good table on Wikipedia, it says quite a lot on this topic in the second half of the page. Evidently there is a 240W configuration in Type C called USB 3.1, it is still 5A but requires 48V so would only be good for charging larger devices like laptops in that configurat...

Use the fast blow fuse at the DC output and sized to protect the load. Slow blow can also be used if the load occasionally has short surges that the cap can keep up with. If you can find the datasheet, then you can discover the time to blow at any given overcurrent. Use the slow blow at the AC input...

Seems like adapting an off the shelf 3D printer kit can accomplish this with different file type input and less component selection. There are also off the shelf CNC kits with controller and steppers but not necessarly the gantry frame components. Drilling is wood isn't necessarily demanding for tor...