Thread: LiveWave "antenna" SCAM

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I am going to keep hammering on the misleading ads being used to market the LiveWave antenna SCAM until they take this crap product off the market.

Let's review today's dose from this page:

https://lc-track.com/blog/livewave/en/e/2/

The implication of this ad is that a "Nobel laureate" Japanese engineer named Isamu Tanaka Ph.D wants to let you in a secret that will let you cancel your cable subscription and "Allow [you] To Watch FREE TV In HD, Get Up To 800 Premium And International Channels, Record DVR And More".

Let's start with the fact that I can't find any Isamu Tanaka who is a "Nobel laureate", but I did find one who has published extensively on his career studying the effects of different substances on the lungs of rats.

Then move on to this paragraph:

In an interview, Isamu Tanaka said that up until 2019, cable companies in U.S. were allowed to "scramble" their channels so that the general public could not access them without paying for their service. However, that all changed starting in 2019, with the government ruling that TV signals are public property and "belong to the people".

It is absolutely true that "up until 2019, cable companies in U.S. were allowed to "scramble" their channels so that the general public could not access them without paying for their service".

It is also STILL TRUE and WILL REMAIN THAT WAY.

Nothing has changed. Cable TV content never has been and never will be "broadcast".

When they follow up that irrelevant statement with "that all changed starting in 2019, with the government ruling that TV signals are public property and belong to the people", they want people to ignore the reality that over-the-air broadcast TV signals have always been freely available to anyone who wants to receive them.

They want people to believe that plugging in a plastic disk that connects an antenna wire from your TV to the grounding wire in your house will give you free access to "Watch Any Movie, Show or TV Channel For FREE in HD" and "Get Up To 800 Premium And International Channels".

That's a lie. Period.

Thrifty consumers who live within 30-45 miles of one or more TV stations (depending on antenna location, antenna quality, buildings and terrain typically receive about 40-50 channels in metropolitan areas and a third that many near less populated cities. These channels include the major broadcast channels plus a few networks that are specifically marketed to broadcasters for transmitting on digital sub-channels within their bandwidth allotment. Most people in my metropolitan area who use OTA signals find that somewhat more than half of the channels they receive primarily carry home shopping networks, religious programming, children's programming and infomercials.

Keep in mind that those consumers are using antennas that are designed to receive TV signals as opposed to the useless piece of plastic junk that is being marketed as the LiveWave antenna.

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