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A couple years ago, I cut the cord. Or, I tore down the dish, I guess. I cancelled my satellite subscription and bout a TiVo Premiere for DVR capabilities. I went through a few different indoor antennas (I'm only 20 miles from the towers), but was unable to get satisfactory reception with them. I could get all the channels, but not from one position, and since I time-shift almost everything with the DVR, I can't plan on being there to tune in a station when the show comes on. So I picked up the original version of this, the ClearStream 2. I put it up on the roof, using the same cable that had been coming out of the satellite dish, and connected it to the TiVo. After some fine tuning, I had all the channels locked in. Not ideal signal strengths on all of them, but most were acceptable. Then the trees filled in. Once the trees were full of leaves, the signals dropped and I was again not happy with my reception. So I went out and bought a huge 10-foot aerial old school antenna and mounted that on the roof right next to the CS2. It picked everything up, but was so big and bulky that no matter what I did, I couldn't keep it from drifting in high winds. Climbing up every few weeks to tweak it wasn't that big of a deal during the summer, but when winter came, the last thing I wanted was to be on the roof. So I bit the bullet and had cable installed, since I was already using the cable company for internet. And I hated every minute of it. I hate paying for channels that are floating around in the sky above me. The only 2 shows I watch that weren't available free over the air cost $64 per season from iTunes. So I dug in and did more research and realized that the reason I wasn't getting a good signal from all my channels was that some were broadcasting in VHF, and the original CS2 was only designed/optimized for UHF frequencies. So I picked up this updated version, swapped it out and voila! Rock solid signals from every channel. Strong enough signals that it should work through the summer, and I'm saving so much money. More than anything, it's just a great feeling to stop paying for television, for the most part. I grew up with no cable. It feels great, like going back to a simpler time.