Life hack: how to watch high-quality TV without the Internet, cable and dish

Many people know that for a number of reasons, for almost a year on weekdays I have only had normal Internet at work. In the evenings there is a TV, but there is no cable TV, much less a satellite dish.
I was tormented and upset, missing Champions League matches and other goodies. And just recently I resolved the issue. As it turns out, almost any of us can watch television channels in very good quality. Now I'll tell you how.

Through a cable and a plug with strong interference, I was shown “First”, “Russia 1” and “Ren TV”. And everything would be fine. I hardly watch TV (only sports, “What? Where? When?” and sometimes the news). In addition, you can always insert a flash drive with some good TV series into your TV.
But I would still like to see football when it is shown on public TV. One day I saw an encouraging message on Twitter. Having found out what was what, I eventually solved my problem.
In fact, it is enough to catch digital television from the nearest tower. True, a short survey of friends and acquaintances showed that few people know about this.
So.
Step one. In any digital supermarket or electronics store we buy a digital TV receiver (with DVB-T2 technology). I’ll make a reservation: many modern LCD TVs already have them, and in this case you can skip the first point. But I will return to personal experience.
Small boxes with remote controls cost from 1200 to 2500 rubles. I took this one for 1890 krona.

Receivers at this price have teletext functions, video recording to a flash drive, and, what’s nice, they also have a delayed recording function. I returned from work and watched the afternoon match. Also, such receivers play video from a flash drive.

Step two. We purchase an HDMI cable. Cost me 416 rubles. As far as I understand, any will do, they only differ in length.
This step can also be skipped - the receivers are equipped with regular wires, but, as I understand it, they convert the digital signal to analog, so HDMI still rules. For truly.

Step three. We purchase an indoor antenna. Here, I admit, I played it safe. Someone said you could just use wire. Others insisted that the simplest antenna would do.
In the store they began to actively convince me that with the simplest indoor (not outdoor) antennas it may or may not catch - it all depends on the nuances, the location of the windows, etc. But with this antenna for 1000 rubles, they say, it will catch 100 percent. This was my last purchase, and I bought the antenna for 990 rubles. Maybe he overpaid. But, you must admit, the whole set is still quite budget-friendly.

That's all. All that remains is to connect the antenna to the receiver at home, and the receiver to the TV. After 10 minutes, you will catch either ten channels and three radios (1st multiplex of digital terrestrial television), or as many as 20 channels (if you catch both the 1st and 2nd multiplex). In large cities and regional centers there are definitely twenty channels.
Out of my dozen, I watch channel 4 at most (by the way, Public Television of Russia is very distant, just a little, but it resembles the Dozhd channel, now paid).
I may not watch many channels, but they are of great quality, which is not available even in my parents’ house, where there has been cable for a hundred years. And, I note, all this without any subscription fee. Cable for parents costs 250 rubles a month, and they only watch 5-7 channels. I'm not even talking about kits with satellite dishes - one piece of equipment costs 9-15 thousand. This is beneficial when you actually have your own home, and when you watch TV all day long.
I don't need to pay anything now. At all. Now I understand that the state is investing significant funds in this. I understand what officials mean when they talk about “affordable television.” Why didn’t I know all this confusion a year ago - who will figure it out...
Probably, now there are such TVs and such technologies that many of you are well aware of digital TV via an antenna. But I hope this post is useful to someone.