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My wife Duncan Keith Canada Jersey , Judy, and I are residents of Minnesota, but from mid-October to Mid-April, we're snowbirds who travel in our motor home around whatever southern region of the U.S. strikes our fancy that particular year. It's a fun lifestyle that fits our independent, free-spirited natures well, but like everything else, one that also is not without "gotchas" from time to time. We had an opportunity to face one such challenge recently, and this is how we overcame it.

When you travel around in your Recreation Vehicle (RV) a lot like we do Drew Doughty Canada Jersey , one of the things you don't get to take with you wherever you go that you get rather attached to, while at your permanent home, is your local television programming. We do subscribe to a satellite television service, and yes, the vast majority of the television feeds that are available via cable or satellite or broadband services are available to us whether we're on the road or at our Minnesota lake home.

But over the past several years, consistently receiving free public broadcast signals with sufficient quality such that you can reasonably enjoy watching the programming, well, that is another matter. Early on you could subscribe to your local network programming and have the signals beamed to you along with all the other satellite services you were buying. Then Dan Hamhuis Canada Jersey , technology advancements and local area programming expansions led to restrictions and limitations on who could receive what. In effect, satellite "broadcasting" became "spot casting."

Then, executive branch regulators and elected legislators, influenced by special interests, combined to place even more restrictions on the public. They redefined even more narrowly who could qualify to receive local and national network programming from their satellite service provider, and who had to do as best they could with whatever signals there may be floating about in the nearby airspace that they could pick up on an antenna.

But even that wasn't enough, essentially declaring that any American foolish enough to travel in their RV or to choose to live farther than maybe 60 miles from a signal tower must be satisfied with watching their favorite public broadcast TV programs complimented by whatever degree of wavy and snowy interference there may be accompanying them. Oh no, it was agreed by these illustrious leaders that Dale Hawerchuk Canada Jersey , rather than force these folks to watch their intermittent analog TV transmissions, transitioning to digital signals would be better yet, as then they wouldn't get anything at all!

Now, you may think that the preceding discourse is a bit over-exaggerated, but really, not all that much! When TV stations transmitted their signals using analog technology, the signals could travel maybe 100 miles, deteriorating over the last 50 miles before disappearing altogether. Those on the outer reaches would get quite frustrated Corey Perry Canada Jersey , to be sure, but they did get some reception. With digital technology, the realistic distance for viewing is perhaps 60 miles, and it's either all or nothing. Furthermore, analog signals can bend some - over, under and around obstacles. Digital signals, however, don't fare so well when they smack against such things as mountains Corey Crawford Canada Jersey , hills, buildings and trees.

Well, to shorten my tale, this snowbird season has been a particularly trying one for us. Consistently receiving digital signals transmitting major network and local programming over the air has been very difficult to achieve. Then, this past week, it became impossible. Enough is enough.

I began seeking other options in earnest. One in particular quickly arose to be the leading contender, watching TV on a PC, or laptop Claude Giroux Canada Jersey , or through one or the other, on a bigger screen TV.

Before investigating positives and negatives further, however, I needed to establish the legality of the option in the first place. To start that off, I did a quick search of Google and found that there were nearly 62 million results returned for the keyword phrase, not what you'd expect to find if it was illegal. Second, Google was happily accepting Adsense ads and payments which, again Chris Kunitz Canada Jersey , is not what you'd expect if it was illegal.

Next, while shopping for a new laptop at Best Buy, I noticed every brand and model I looked at running Microsoft's Window 7 included some upgradeable TV watching capability. Same for the Macs running the latest OS X version. How likely do you think that would be if it was illegal?
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