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Re:A coax cable horror story by skwheel on Monday May 08, 2023 @10:22PM (#35869516)
what are you talking about? Drive _anywhere_ in the UK and you'll see an aerial TV antenna on almost every roof.
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Re:A coax cable horror story by skwheel on Monday May 08, 2023 @10:25PM (#35869526)
sorry to be snarky there. Your post read to me like, "I haven't seen a banana in the US in 10 years. We don't eat them anymore."
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Re:A coax cable horror story by swores on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @04:04AM (#35871438)
I'm sure some (plenty) of Brits do still plug-in their TVs to those antennas, but anecdotally I can't think of a single friend or family member in the UK who I've noticed still doing that.... most either use a TV package from their ISP, or no TV at all. And yet we all still have those antennas on the roofs because why bother removing them?

On the other hand, doesn't Virgin Media (pretty much the only cable provider in the UK) use coax into routers/TV boxes?

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