I bought a new house, and just moved in. Recently, I discovered that one of the previous owners had installed a GIANT antenna in my attic.<BR><BR>Now, I've been needing an antenna to feed my need for ...

Sometimes you have to go big. I've been a cord-cutter for more than a year, and until now, I have used an indoor antenna to watch my local over-the-air channels. Because I review gadgets, I've tried ...

Look like a decent VHF antenna, costing about $50. Antennas are just hunks of conductive metal that resonant with the EM spectrum, they don't really deteriorate unless you bend them out of shape. Or ...

I'm not precious about video and sound, so this is actually the least important category in my hit list. When I was setting ...

Engineering is largely about tradeoffs and constraints. Sometimes, the issues are clouded and the choices are fuzzy, but occasionally, the choice has a fairly clear split. I had one of the latter ...

Oh boy, writing about cord-cutting last week really brought out the reader responses. I was already planning to write about watching local channels, and one person sent in just the right question: ...

Even with that modest 5-percent discount, though, I’d argue that this GE antenna is well worth its current $39 price tag. It’s easy to install, it’s small enough for apartment dwellers, it’s tough, ...

This is the second in a series of articles about FM transmission systems. The first appeared Oct. 9. How many bays do I need in my antenna and how much transmitter power do I need? These questions ...

The $99 over-the-air tuner box is especially useful to Sling TV subscribers but the inability to pause live TV limits its appeal. TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, ...

It is one of Murphy’s laws, we think, that you can’t get great things when you need them. Back in the heyday of shortwave broadcasting, any of us would have given a week’s pay for even a low-end ...