> The change from analog to digital definitely DOES affect those of us who
> have digital TVs. We have analog service on all of our televisions--two
> are also digital.
Actually, it's highly unlikely your TVs have analog tuners in them.
They are digital. But what you mean is they are not ATSC.
> Digital TV doesn't carry as far as analog. We get ZERO channels using
> the digital tuners.
True. And worse, it's an "on or off" proposition. Gone are the old
days when you could squint at a distant TV station obscured by static.
With DTV, at a certain point, the picture just cuts off.
> Who is supposed to benefit from this change? I doubt it's consumers.
> This is yet another bad idea pushed through corporate government by
> industry lobbyists without consideration for consumers.
Alas, I disagree. The radio spectrum has always been finite. The old
NTSC ("analog") broadcasts use an enormous amount of this limited
space to transmit the same information. Really, this transition should
have taken place 10 years ago.
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