<p>So I’ve been at college for about a month now, and am thinking it would be nice to get a TV in my room. I didn’t originally because I didn’t want the distraction or to pay for cable and I figured I could use the TV lounge whenever I wanted. Well, now that I’m settled in, it’s become apparent that using the lounge will be too much of a hassle. So the bottom line is, do people have experience using rabbit ears in a dorm room? I still don’t want to pay for cable and go through the hassle of having to set up an appointment with the company for installation. I’m living in Minneapolis MN which is the same city as all of the over the air stations that you can get. In fact, I’m within 2 miles of half of them and the farthest is probably about 7 miles away.</p>
<p>So, I’m a little confused. You are 100% sure that you’ll actually get a station with rabbit ears?</p>
<p>Well now I’m confused. Why wouldn’t the OP get stations with rabbit ears? I mean, in the big cities, can’t all people get the network stations (CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, and probably WB at least) with rabbit ears? To answer the original question, I’ve never used rabbit ears in the dorm, and I suppose that the reception might be a little bit spotty (especially if you’re in the basement), but I can’t see why it wouldn’t work.</p>
<p>I’ve never actually lived in a big city, so when we used to have a tv with rabbit ears at my house, it never really got anything. But if they actually work and the OP would be content with 5 channels, then I say go for it.</p>
<p>I lived through college for 4 years with just rabbit ears–the cable companies hadn’t laid cable all the way to the dorms yet. We got CBS and NBC–the only two networks in the area–it was a small town. (I hear they now have ABC, too!) </p>
<p>It’s doable. If you have more selection, you might end up watching more TV than studying–it can be a distraction.</p>
<p>Just remember that you won’t always get clear reception, especially in humidity or rain.</p>
<p>Invest in a hi-def widescreen monitor and then use your school’s hi-speed internet to “obtain” the shows you want to watch.</p>
<p>rabbit ears? No thanks, I just stick a fork back there and for whatever reason I seem to get GREAT reception.</p>
<p>*not in college though, just my experience as a tv watcher.</p>
<p>^ actually that is true. U can stick a pin into the antenna receptor and it’ll work as well as rabbit ears. Well I did stick a needle into my antenna receptor and then unfortunately it broke off… U might wanna watch out for that…</p>
<p>I’m living in Texas and using Rabbit Ears pick up about 8 stations in standard def, and another 4 in High Def. Later this year ABC and the CW should also be coming over to the high def side, so that’ll be two more.</p>
<p>too bad you don’t go to a school who offers free cable</p>
<p>^^^What school offers free cable? Sounds unecessarily expensive.</p>
<p>You can use a metal coat hanger too. Works BEAUTIFULLY.</p>
<p>My school gives free cable :). Which part of why I was kind of confused. I knew that there are schools where it isn’t free, but I figured that maybe it was that the cable hookup was there and you just had to pay to get the cable turned on or something. My school wouldn’t even allow you have elaborate outside work like that done in the dorms.</p>
<p>My school has cable included with all campus housing</p>
<p>wow, I thought free cable was a given at all schools</p>
<p>I bought a TV tuner with my Dell laptop. It is convenient because you don’t need to kill space with a TV, plus it is like TiVo in that you can pause live TV as well as record anything and have it digitally stored. Pretty sweet</p>
<p>My undergrad gave free cable, I was under the impression that most schools do.</p>
<p>Yeah some schools dont have it. I know OU didn’t have it until a year ago :/</p>
<p>Our school has free cable with two premium movie channels and we have been trying to get HD channels on top of it. 75 channels in all right now. Other schools I applied to generally had the same thing.</p>
<p>Yea I thought all schools had cable, guess not. Where in Texas are you allena? I go to Texas State.</p>