Ok, need a little tech geek guidance here. My wife had it out with the DirecTV guys the other day, and she's ready to cut the cord completely. So we're looking at some options.
Couple of questions to get me started (for people who might be in the know). We are currently in a rental, and our landlord isn't really keen on having a roof antenna, although we could do an attic antenna. I'm curious about having a feed to our three televisions (main, bedroom, kid's playroom) for an over the air feed off one antenna...can we splice off one feed to three televisions without a significant loss of signal, or would it require an amplifier?
Secondarily, could we use the existing DirecTV cable runs for this?
Unfortunately, we are about 40 miles from all the TV transmitting towers, and in the foothills at that - so the signals can be a bit sketchy. I actually bought a Muho Leaf antenna just to try it out on our three televisions - and on the main television we get all the locals, but had mixed results on the others. Nifty little toy though, it's a credit card thin antenna about the height and width of a sheet of paper and only costs about $30.
One thing we'd like to have is the ability to DVR some of the network stuff off the antenna. Is TiVo the only real option in this regard? Spending the money to set up three televisions sort of defeats the purpose of us trying to minimize our costs, plus I've read online that their tuner actually tends to affect some additional signal loss.
I've probably got a ton more questions, but I'm looking for a bit of starting direction from someone who might have run through this in the past.