We've been talking about cord-cutting lately, and I wanted to highlight several similar products that might make receiving over-the-air signals easier in a house or apartment with reception issues or multiple TVs.

As we've discussed, placing an OTA antenna for optimum reception can be tricky. Most installations call for the antenna to be connected to the TV directly through a coax cable. This is fine if your TV is on an outside wall of the home, preferably facing the direction of the broadcast towers, but what if your TV is on a stone fireplace in the middle of your house?

A "behind the TV" installation of one of those neat flat antennas would be next to impossible.

Also, what do you do if you have three or four TVs throughout your house and you'd like to watch local channels on all of them? Get an antenna for each set? Mount one antenna and then use splitters and run coax to each set in the house? Both of those will work, but there is an easier way.

You can use your home's network to distribute the OTA signals.

How?

There are a few TV tuner boxes from companies like SiliconDust or Tablo or AirTV that will connect to your antenna and then serve up those channels wired or wirelessly to TVs or even phones, tablets or computers inside your house or even when you're far away from home.

I'll use the Tablo Dual Lite OTA DVR box ($139.99) as an example.

You find the best placement in your house for the antenna and connect it to the Tablo box. The Tablo box then connects to your home network either through an ethernet cable or Wi-Fi.

You can then watch the channels on a TV using a Roku or Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV device.

Set up each TV with the streaming device of your choice and load the Tablo app. As long as both the Tablo and your streaming device are on the same network, you'll see the OTA channels on your TVs. You can use one Tablo box to feed as many TVs as you like in your home network.

You can also watch on computers, smartphones and tablets both at home and even away from home if you set up the network connection appropriately.

The Tablo Dual Lite OTA DVR has a USB port for you to connect a flash drive or hard drive to record the shows for later playback. There is a charge for guide data.

SiliconDust makes a line of OTA tuners called HDHomeRun (starting at $99) that work the same way. The HDHomeRun boxes can't record, but they can be part of a larger home media server using Plex software that can be used to record the OTA shows.

Finally, there is a new box from Dish called AirTV ($119.99). This box is new and not to be confused with a previous product, called the AirTV Player.

This new box is a networked OTA receiver like the others we've discussed. It can also run the SlingTV app (also owned by Dish) so you can watch your OTA and streaming live SlingTV content from one source.

I'll be reviewing the new AirTV box soon.

So don't be discouraged if you think running cables from your antenna to your various TV locations will be a hassle. Setting up a networked OTA receiver can be the right solution for a lot of people.