This is just wild. The guy gets like 5000 TV channels off his dozen or so antennas. Not too shabby. This reminds be of the bit I did a while back on TV DX’ing. That used just your normal TV receiver to pull in the distant stations, but this guy is using all sots of old small dish satellite receivers to tune in the transmissions that come in as they say, ‘free to air‘. That translates as he "gets them for free ’cause no one encrypts them". 100% legal and it happens all the time. Some networks don’t even bother to encrypt anything (GASP!)
You can do this stuff yourself, all you need are some dishes and a receiver that can pickup these un-scrambled transmissions. Pretty soon you’ll be grooving to news air checks and weird foreign shows. I’d like it because I might be able to receive ThaiTV. Not only would my wife like it but it might improve my weak grasp of the Thai language a little bit more.
[via Boing Boing]