Ben wrote: > If you haven't tried to rx DTV yet it's time you did. I can watch > channels now in studio quality that in analog are almost unwatchable > by todays standards. HD signals are very nice too! It's easy to pick > these channels up with the antenna you have up now and the cost is > just going to do down from here. All TV's sold today are required to > have DTV tuners. Go to Walmart and look. >
The experience I have heard from everyone else is just the opposite. The DTV signal requires much more antenna then analog. A station only a mile or two away that is perfect in analog is unwatchable in DTV. And even when it is watchable by putting up an antenna outside, it's not any better quality then analog on the same size TV. One issue I see is people are NOT comparing apples to apples. You can't compare a 20" analog to a 36" flat panel. My 27" analog TV at home has as good a pic from DirecTV as any ~27" flat panel I've seen, and better then most. Flat panels distort when there is movement in the video. It gets a 'smear' that makes it hard to focus. I'll keep my CRT, thank you very much.
