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by noahtallen 1078 days ago
> As a value proposition, you have an initial cost of $50-$300

You can get a cheap antenna off Amazon for $10-$20, and even my budget-oriented TCL Roku TV has a built-in tuner. In cities, this works pretty well! I don’t think many young people realize this is just available to everyone basically for free.
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zerocrates 1078 days ago
Anything that calls itself a "TV" has to have a tuner.

I bought my current Vizio in the period where they were omitting them and selling as "displays" but they've since switched back to just being TVs again and including the tuners.

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JohnFen 1078 days ago
> In cities, this works pretty well!

Not in my city. You have to be lucky enough to live in a neighborhood where the signal actually reaches. My decidedly not scientific observation is that's about 75% of the city.

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