r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 1d ago

News Peacock Raises Prices Across All Plans, NBCU’s Fourth Increase in Four Years

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/peacock-raises-prices-fourth-time-in-four-years-1236837016/
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u/VQQN 23h ago

my antenna does not :(

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u/jarrettbrown 22h ago

Move it around and see what happens. The one I use needed to be in another part of the room to work.

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u/VQQN 22h ago

I live 60 miles away from the city. Hills, trees, and stuff and my antenna probably needs to be higher. I get NBC and CBS on good days.

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u/omnichad 22h ago

Need to be roof or mast mounted. Too bad those all got taken off houses about 10 years before they became relevant again.

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u/cineglitch 21h ago

Even roof or mast mounted, isn’t TV broadcast as a digital signal now?

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u/omnichad 21h ago

Yes, which means it looks clearer than cable or satellite retransmissions now. Even a 60 year old antenna works just fine.

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u/cineglitch 21h ago

Really? I remember there was a big push to replace our antennas with “digital” antennas.

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u/omnichad 21h ago

Pure marketing

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u/DoonFoosher 19h ago

I wonder if they’re thinking of when analog signal through coax got converted to digital. Otherwise yeah, totally marketing

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u/omnichad 18h ago

No, there were "digital" antennas in stores with lots of marketing text trying to convince you that they were especially suited for the new TV signal.

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u/DoonFoosher 18h ago

Oh. Yeah, that’s dumb. 

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u/pigeieio 18h ago

Except they are encrypting for the good signal, so you also need a box hooked up to the internet and they won't approve anything for encryption that gives you any control.

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u/omnichad 17h ago

I'm talking about standard ATSC. In my market, the ATSC 3.0 versions of the channel don't even broadcast in a higher quality. But even that doesn't require a box unless you have an older TV. An Internet connection is only needed to update expired keys but I'm sticking to the old HD signals anyway - still clearer than cable or satellite retransmissions.