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whoopdedo on May 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion

The people who say "get an antenna" must have never seen a mountain or high-rise building before. Television signals require line of sight and if you're unlucky enough to have a sizable obstruction between you and the transmission tower then you're out of luck.

dredmorbius on May 19, 2014 [–]

Reasonable line-of-sight. Radio waves _will_ bend around modest-sized obstacles, though remote or mountainous regions are clearly disadvantaged.

That said: most large population centers tend not to be remote and/or mountainous.

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