If your thinking of using over the air HDTV in Windows Media Center and looking to use a rooftop antenna Ed Bott has a breakdown of your rights (in the USA). I know lots of Media Center users are getting free channels using ATSC tuners and if an indoor antenna will not do and you want to put up an antenna on the roof there are a set of rights mandated by the FCC

With the transition to digital broadcasts earlier this year, it’s even more important to have a great digital input source. So what do you do if your homeowners association says “no rooftop antennas”? You point them to the official Federal Communications Commission Fact Sheet on Placement of Antennas. It’s a summary of the Over-the-Air Reception Devices Rule, created by direction of Congress in the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Read Ed’s post for your handy cut out and keep rights document

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