You can check what they theoretically expect you to be able to get with an antenna at <http://www.antennaweb.org>. This takes your address and generates a list of receivable stations and a map of the direction each of those stations lay from your location.
I know from experience I can now easily receive the 'analog' signals from Baltimore with a pair of rabbit ears in Fairfax county VA. They don't expect that I could get the Digital signals. On Jan 2, 2008 10:55 PM, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Since this *is* a technical list, let's not get things confused. It's > > not the television *receivers* that are changing to digital, it's the > > *transmitters*. That's why people with cable or satellite are > > unaffected by the changeover. > > > > Coinciding with the DTV *transmitter* changeover is a new television > > broadcast standard. The one your old tv uses is NTSC which has been > > around since 1940. The new standard is ATSC which will officially be > > inaugurated February 17, 2009, currently the day the last of the old > > analog NTSC *transmitters* is to be turned off in the US. But actually > > most large market stations are already broadcasting ATSC. > > > 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. We are about 50 mile from the closest transmitters and > get fair to good analog reception with rabbit ears. > > Digital TV doesn't carry as far as analog. We get ZERO channels using > the digital tuners. That means we will have to pay several hundred > dollars to get an antenna that might be powerful enough to pull in a > digital broadcast. Otherwise we'll be forced to watch no local channels > on two of our TVs or pay big bucks for cable, FIOS or satellite on those > TVs that today get decent analog reception. > > Will the broadcast channels boost their transmission so that we can get > the same service we had with analog? I won't hold my breath waiting. > > 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. > > > Betty > > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
