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What is the best antenna to get for a digital tv?

I have Cox Communications and pay for digital cable. How do i get local HD channels on my TV's w.o an Antenna?

  • I Have Cox Communications and i pay for their digital TV service. I have an HD box on my 42" Plasma, but have a 32" LCD which i don't have a digital box for. I would like ot get the local broadcast HD channels on my LCD with out using an antenna. It appears Cox does not provide me with the local HD channels (which are broadcast free and through the air, what gives?). How can i get these HD channels with out an antenna? Is that i don't have o pay Cox for to get these?

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    I assume that you've done a digital channel scan on the TV? I'm not a Cox customer, but I do know that my cable company has been eliminating HD programming that I could previously get with my built in QAM tuner on my 40" Samsung LCD (not through the cable box). Comcast (oops, did I let the name slip out?) responded to questions about unscrambled HD channels with the assertion that there is no way to access cable HD programming without one of their digital boxes, and if I were doing so it was because I was accessing the signal illegally. Of course, the woman on the phone from Comcast probably believed the fairy tale she was telling me, because none of their employees really know anything about the technical side of the business, and answer questions like that from a script. My guess is that is the sort of answer you would get from Cox. What I've wound up doing is using an indoor uhf antenna for my local programming in HD. I'm lucky to live in an area where all the local TV broadacst antennas are close and are located within just a few degrees of arc from my house. Good Luck dealing with the bastards

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,It depends a lot on your location.If you are near the local transmitter, you may get a good enough signal to manage without an expensive antenna but for most free to air stations you WILL need one.If you are in USA,i do not know the set up really, but a simple test is to try your digital box and plug a co ax cable into that and see if there is any audio,there may not be a picture ,but if the sound is good it could mean an indoor rig may be enough for you.Hope it helps.

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Well, you have to get the signal into your 32' one way or another right? If you aren't going to use Cox, (getting another digital cable box) then you need an antenna. Sorry to say, you'll have to pay one way or another. But if you just want local HD channels, the cheaper way long term is to buy the HD antenna.

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