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2009-01-28 , 06:32
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Well, that's a big part of the issue, but it's also a fact that digital signals can be received with little degradation to a certain strength (depending on the receiver), but then reception drops off much more sharply. So if you're way out there, you might get pretty bad analog reception, but still put up with it, and then get no usable reception on digital at the same broadcast power.

Of course, the solution -- assuming the station is broadcasting digital at full power, and you still can't get it -- is to get a better antenna, which would have benefited your analog reception too. But honestly, I think my tendency would be to replace TV with internet, rather than spend more on an antenna...
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2009-01-28 , 07:07
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My Opinion: If we switch now, there will be a week of mass panic, and then everyone will forget about it and say "Oh, mah TV is looking much better!"

Personally I don't even watch TV. With a dual enrollment in college and high school, the only free time I get is past 11:00 PM. I only watch "Prime Time" shows online...
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2009-01-28 , 09:04
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u people watch/own tv!? are u serious?
 
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2009-01-28 , 18:42
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Looks like America *IS* ready for change...
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/28/d...pass-in-house/
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In an absolutely shocking move, the United States House of Representatives has failed to pass the digital TV transition delay bill that was all but certain to fly through just days ago. The bill needed two-thirds of the votes of the House under "special rules adopted for the vote," and reportedly, the vote was just 258 to 168 in favor of changing the date.

Developing...
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2009-01-28 , 18:53
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Originally Posted by quipper8 View Post
I didn't ever know what level they were broadcasting at, but I can say that once they turned analog off here all stations came in fine digitally whereas before I was tweaking and pointing antenna and following avs forum threads on antenna types, etc.
That's good to hear!
 
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2009-01-28 , 18:55
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Originally Posted by ioan View Post
the United States House of Representatives has failed to pass the digital TV transition delay bill
Good. Let's get this over with.
 
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2009-01-30 , 13:41
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Originally Posted by quipper8 View Post
I didn't ever know what level they were broadcasting at, but I can say that once they turned analog off here all stations came in fine digitally whereas before I was tweaking and pointing antenna and following avs forum threads on antenna types, etc.

I am about 30 miles from most of my stations towers
That may help. I live about 75 miles from the PBS station transmitter I would like to watch after 17 Feb. I do have an external antenna pointed in the direction of the transmitter.

As a former broadcast engineer, I am familiar with coverage contours, and I know I am currently outside of the PBS station's. Of course, that doesn't mean I don't want to watch it.

I can receive closer DTV transmissions, and I have to agree with others, the picture looks fantastic!

Craig...
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2009-01-30 , 15:23
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Originally Posted by briand View Post
Yes. ...and potato chips won't be as salty, either.



Whether the FCC closes off analog television broadcasting or not has no bearing on WiFi access, or widespread publicly available WiFi.


The frequencies in question (for analog VHF television broadcasting) are 54.0 MHz - 72.0 MHz (analog channels 2-4), 76.0 MHz - 88.0 MHz (analog channels 5 & 6), and 174.0 MHz - 216.0 MHz (analog channels 7-13).

WiFi, in the so-called "world wide band", operates in the 2.4 GHz range (2.401 GHz - 2.473 GHz, for WiFi channels 1 thru 11 [802.11/b], for instance). I doubt any company plans on engineering any new WiFi equipment to operate in the former analog VHF television range, once it has been vacated by the television broadcasters.
I use WIFI in the most general sense of the word and not the specific A/B/G/N implementations that we currently use.
 
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2009-01-30 , 19:22
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Originally Posted by cvmiller View Post
That may help. I live about 75 miles from the PBS station transmitter I would like to watch after 17 Feb. I do have an external antenna pointed in the direction of the transmitter.

As a former broadcast engineer, I am familiar with coverage contours, and I know I am currently outside of the PBS station's. Of course, that doesn't mean I don't want to watch it.

I can receive closer DTV transmissions, and I have to agree with others, the picture looks fantastic!

Craig...
the best antenna I came up with is the u75r from radioshack, note though that it is UHF only(which all of my stations are and most will be). You can check antennaweb to see if your digital stations are uhf or vhf
 
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