As I mentioned in another post in another discussion thread, there's a sucker born every minute, and tons of companies out there happily willing to market to people that will buy they're over-hyped products. My dad went to Walmart several months ago and came home giddy because the salesperson sold him on a way to cut the cord and get rid of cable forever. She sold him a cheap, generic-brand SmartTV that she claimed could pick up tons of movie and TV channels and she also sold him a $39 antenna that she said could be used to bring tons of OTA channels - so between that low-end SmartTV and the antenna, he could get most everything he always watches - for FREE! First, the TV only provided 2nd or maybe 3rd rate offerings, but few if any of the most watched, well-known broadcast or cable networks. Second, my dad remembers the days in the 1970s where he put an antenna with a rotor on the roof and pulled in nearly every OTA signal for 100 miles around. She told him the $39 set top antenna she sold him would do the same. He never got it to work. I went to the web and found that, in his area, he may only pull in 1 or maybe 2 DTV stations. I had to explain how analog back in the day was very different than digital and how DTV signals don't travel as far. I also had to explain that if getting all the programming she'd promised for FREE was that easy and it just required the purchase of a TV, everyone would do it. In the end, he was determined that she was right and he'd found a better way. By the time he realized he was sold a pile of crap and that the TV pulled in NONE of the hockey and baseball games, the Game Show Network and other stuff they watch and that the antenna was worthless, it was too late to return the stuff and get his money back. He's stuck with it - and still has his full cable subscription.
