It's funny how you reminded me of when I went through all of this back in the early 2000's when HD started being broadcast OTA in Phoenix. I think I paid like a $1,000 for the Mitsubishi Sat/OTA tuner to connect to my $2,800 rear projection monitor. I was definitely on the bleeding edge back then! Just a couple of channels to watch at the time, most not even running around the clock. PBS had the same HD demo loop running over and over but the picture was incredible. No sub-channels at all, just max'd bitrate on 8.1. Come to think of it, I believe it was Chandler Mike at the time, who I met on an old HDTV message board, and he eventually turned me on to this place!
And here we are, twenty years into the future and I'm thinking about antennae and tuners again.
And here we are, twenty years into the future and I'm thinking about antennae and tuners again.