Bad news for home theater enthusiasts

@nonoise you are correct, I had to look up how many new markets being added so I actually knew what I was talking about. You should try it sometime.

@fredrik222 What good are markets when the options to watch are as sparse as your imagination?  All anyone needs to do is go to antennaweb.org, type in their zip code, and see where their available stations are located, how to position your antenna, and view the listings. For HD-Nextgen, click on it to narrow down the field.

I've been doing it for years, waiting for the day when I could cut the cord and get comparable programming in HD-Nextgen and in a big city like LA, all I have are 6 local stations and a jewelry channel to watch in HD. Wow! Now that's progress.

You're saying the market is growing is like saying all empty office buildings going to waste are a sign of business booming just by counting the buildings. 

All the best,
Nonoise

@nonoise look at that, you do know how to use google. Now try it before EVERY post. 

Again, markets like LA, have had HD OTA for over 20 years, and has had 4k for at least three years. Again, google is your friend. 

I said nothing about the market growing, I said ATSC3.0 is rolling out to 50 new smaller markets this year. 

@fredrik222 In your quest to try to put me down, you take everything exactingly literally when I’m speaking in a general, conversational manner, like one does on a forum. It’s the only way you can retort. Like I said before, "you hunt and peck".

You’re incredibly obsessed with me to the point of lacking situational awareness.

Having options to cable entails the programming they have to offer and not just the mechanism used. HD OTA doesn’t begin to compete with cable in that regard and that was the point I made, which you very well know. That you sidestep that entirely says all one needs to know.

As for this:
I said nothing about the market growing, I said ATSC3.0 is rolling out to 50 new smaller markets this year.

Isn’t that what’s known as a distinction without a difference? Or maybe, you contradicting yourself in one, short sentence? Don’t make me slip the nurse a twenty to put a sedative in your jello.

All the best,
Nonoise

@nonoise  I am not trying to put you down at all, you do that all by yourself. I am just pointing out your ignorance on every topic you have an opinion about.

And again, your lack of knowledge about this industry: 

• OTA isn't for every channel, never was since the introduction of cable, and there are several reasons for this, technical and financial. If you expected to get your fix of TBS or ESPN free OTA, then you are just ignorant. 
• Growing market and market roll out is two entirely different things, ignorance again. A growing market means that there are increasing number of viewers in this case. Market roll out is that you expand the service to cover more viewers, regardless if they use the service or not.

So again, you really should use google, you have no relevant knowledge about any topic I've ever seen you post about.