Dalex said: (quoted from post at 10:35:34 06/17/09) Between my neighbor and my family, we have 6 Zenith boxes in service . 2 are on rabbit ears , 4 are on roof antennas. All are on the single coax cable hookup,not the 3 wire , and we get more channels than we did on analog. We are in the greater L.A. area. Only trick I found was rescan several times at night and day time , to pick up missing channels.
And so your point is what? --that since you are in the center of probably the largest DTV broadcast coverage area on earth that you can watch many channels? Why would you expect anything else?
I've been preaching my opinion of this mess for months, and only now that many --in fringe areas--have actually been thrown into the mudhole--have "we" found what a bill 'o goods DTV really is---much worse coverage, so don't tell me about all the "extra" channels I get for free
The other thing about DTV is that it's MUCH more difficult to troubleshoot problems, and I've said this before too.
With analogue, if you had the "old man" out in the garage welding, you got snow and noise on your analogue picture. The same type of interferance on DTV will simply tile, blank, or freeze the picture--the interferance is still there and still affects the signal--you just can't tell what it IS
The above is true of ANY interferance, including something in/ around the house that generates RF noise, or ----ghosts
We remember ghosts, right? The proper name for which is "multipath," ghosts are a main and a reflected signal which arrive at the receiving antenna at slightly displaced times, causing the delayed picture effect.
Multipath still happens with DTV--and still deteriorates the signal. It's just that you can't see or hear it--so you wont know what the problm IS You'll turn on your "signal meter" in the menu, and show a low signal level, and not be able to figure out WHY. Meanwhile, your DTV signal with tile, freeze, and blank
I don't need to see the pimples on Rosie O'Donnells a$$ in any better quality than I could with analogue
This post was edited by 440roadrunner at 11:09:44 06/17/09.
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