[opendtv] OTA Reception
- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:38:10 -0400
My daughter's apartment is not unusual, neither is her attitude toward
OTA DTV or TV. If OTA is going to survive it is going to have to do
better. They are down to something south of 13% and going much lower
with the transition. But most of my experience is still in the big
city, New York.
Here is Richard Bogner's take today on the CBA thread. He is trying to
survive with LPTV in New York City.
"When I auto-scanned my new (under $200) HDTV flat panel TV, it did
not catch my weak
digital signal between two full powers, but when I then went through
all the channels, all
low power analog stations were there in full color. This is why we
must have NTSC tuners
and seamless reception, analog and digital, in all new receivers for
years to come. I will
not switch to digital until I am sure I can be received by most sets
in most locations, which
certainly is not the case now. I have flash-cut cp's to digital on
all my channels, but I am
going to stay analog for now, and not due to the cost, but reception
of low power digital
is bad (even full power is bad) deep in the cities in living rooms
with indoor antennas.
If the auto-scan does not pick up your channel, forget being received
digitally, BUT you
will always be received analog if the TV has an NTSC tuner and
seamless reception.
At under $200 most people will not use converters, when they can get
HDTV for only a
bit more, as compared to standard definition, and they will get analog
easily. As I said
earlier today, I sat in many homes and watched them fail to get
digital, and fall back on
analog, including low power. I think that after February 17, this
will become clearer."
Much clearer.
Bob Miller
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