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by swader999 376 days ago
Is OTA better quality than streaming services? Several years ago when I looked into this OTA was there highest quality, especially close to a big city.
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Initial roll-out of OTA digital was amazing. I remember watching Tori Amos on PBS ("Austin City Limits"?) and I was almost crying for how beautiful it looked.

Fast forward and OTA started instead using their bandwidth to instead run 4 or 5 lower-bitrate channels. Bummer.

^ Looks like the show might have been Soundstage in 2003: https://youtu.be/iHESs5TxC1Q
Not sure, but I've noticed that especially sports are way better on cable, compared to streaming. It doesn't seem like streaming can keep up in sports like soccer or hockey.

Even Tour de France just looks better on cable. It might just be me, but in terms of specs I should have the better TV between me and my dad, but the details just gets lost somehow in many sports. Only difference I can think of is cable vs. streaming.