Althought possible, from what I've read it highly unlikely that broadcast HDTV will ever be anything but 8-VSB. There's a whole lot of "armor" that goes into the standard to provide multiple layers of data error checking and correcting. Although it's not really great at multipathing, it handles fading and such better. QAM is good for getting more into a relatively clean link (like cable).Expect some of both, and this is still at least a year away, but you probably will eventually need VHF. I decided to put up another antenna when that happens, as I might be on QAM by then.
Actually, channel 12 is quite distant from UHF channels... they're not contiguous:
Since channel 12 is high enough, and it's close, my UHF yagi manages to tune it anyway.
VHF 2-6: 55-83 MHz VHF 7-13: 175-211 MHz UHF 14-69: 471-801 MHz
If the signals' strong enough, you can pick up stuff with a coat hanger, too... (and that's an uncalibrated coat hanger to boot!) ... :)
-Cory
************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * *************************************************************************
_______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
