I even have a rooftop rotor antenna but have not watched an NTSC OTA show in years. Though I do keep a small portable set around that can easily be run on backup power in event of a power failure.
But I have never used it that way. - Tom Craig Birkmaier wrote:
At 10:35 AM -0500 2/11/08, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:Craig Birkmaier wrote:And now reality begins to set in...http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/technology/11analog.html?_r=1&th&emc=t h&oref=sloginMany Obstacles to Digital TV Reception, Study SaysJournalists do like to go for the high drama. I'm sure it's true that some rabbit ear users will lose reception of some channels, especially if their analog reception was poor for those channels. The opposite is also true, as in our case. The TV depending on rabbit ears now gets "perfect" reception of channels that used to come in with strong interference or ghost.Count yourself lucky. As I recall, however, I think you have said that you use a separate UHF antenna (possibly in the attic). Is this the case, or do you rely exclusively on rabbit ears?The "reality is," as Giuliani likes to say, it will be a mixed bag. The better receivers are, the more it will favor digital reception.Sorry Bert, but power levels and C/N margins are more critical for DTV because of the cliff effect. I believe the study was spot on. You seem to believe that everyone still uses NTSC occasionally. I would agree that many homes still have an analog receiver with rabbit ears, but I doubt that most of these sets will be upgraded with a convertor box, much less an improved antenna system.The one area where there is some hope, or room for possible improvement is the use of smart antennas. The NTIA boxes CAN incorporate circuitry for this, but it is not required. Perhaps we will see integrated receivers with smart antennas in the next few years.But of course, we always knew this.Of course we did. Now the other 99.99% of the public is about to learn the realities of DTV.Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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