Receiving HD Broadcast Channels

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Brad Bear on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip I want to talk about receiving broadcast signals for your High Definition television. There's nothing really special about that. If a station in your market is broadcasting High Definition television, you can receive it just like you did analog television, day before you bought your High Def system. So in considering that, you're old bunny ears actually will still work or you can just buy a cheap bunny ear system. Because it's the same analog signal on the electromagnetic spectrum, that's where all the waves are going across the broadcast frequencies, can be received on those bunny ears. Now the other thing to consider is if you're close to a larger market, if you're close to where your television station towers are, it's broadcasting the signals strong, a cheap pair of bunny ears will be fine. Just like the set top box, you just plug it in to the coax end of your TV and kind of screw in off the bunny ears will go right back into the TV, you flip your TV in the menu setting over to digital, and it should start receiving or rolling through the channels to see what ones are High Definition and then you can receive them through your television. Now if you're out in a rural area or you're farther away from the towers, or further away from the towers, all you need to do is get an external or an outdoor antenna, and sometimes you have to put those up on a pole. Those are called dipole antennas. And you put those up to a pole, usually at the top of your house, and they're stronger antenna made for outdoor and made to receive signals that come from further distances. That's all you need to do. And again, plug the cable into the back of your TV, do a search for digital channels or HD channels in your menu settings in your TV and you'll have High Definition broadcast straight into your TV without buying some fancy box that says High Definition Digital on it so they can charge you an extra thirty bucks."