said by Zach 58:said by I Want Analog :
I live about 30 to 45 miles from broadcast towers and have already purchased a converter box. Nearly every day there is enough loss of signal that some pixelation of a show will occur. .....
Now where did I lay that library book?
I'm in the same boat here. I get one station from Grand Forks, ND in digital. Some days are OK and others it's not viewable. There's nothing on worth watching so I guess it will be the marketers’ loss.
As for Washington knowing this will likely leave a good bit of rural America without an OTA signal...they don't care. As usual, they saw the dollar signs. As we all know, inside the Beltway, cash trumps the public interest every time.
Some will have DTV and HDTV and those of us rural folk who refuse to be ripped off by DTV and DISH will have NOTV
first of all if you can get a station in with analog OTA then that station is required by law to be able to reach you with a digital signal.
before people go getting their panties in a wad wait until AFTER the actual transition before complaining. It's KNOWN FACT that once the transition takes place that station will be switching assignments so the digital signal gets the better one since the analog channel will no longer be necessary. Of course right now the analog will get the better assignment so that way the digital one doesn't come in as good. o course less whining and more research and you would have figured this out. This isn't complicated stuff if you bother looking stuff up.
