TGundo 2003 wrote: > Your sources are mis-informed. This isn't "mis-information". This is personal experience. DTV requires MORE antenna to work without breakup. Where a little snow is perfectly tolerable, even a flinch of digital breakup once in a while can make it unwatchable.
If your too close to the transmitter > than likely your fighting multipath which is more harmful to DTV than > analog, but it absolutly requires less signal to noise to get the DTV > signal than analog. I have expierenced many times first hand. Also > reflected in the fact most stations DTV counterparts run at a > fraction of the power as the analog and cover the same, if not more, > area. Lets embrace DTV so leff rf across all the frequencies is being > produced- Couldn't hurt your radios or repeater recievers! (That was > to get this post on topic ;) ) I have experienced the opposite first hand. DTV sucks. And yes, the "lower-powered" DTV signal generates FAR more hash on adjacent frequencies. How about 42 dB of desense on 52.5 Mhz from DTV ch 2? 15 miles away? After EXTENSIVE filtering at the TV transmitter? How about measuring -70 to -80 dBm 2 MHz below the bottom of the channel 7-8 miles from the site? After that filtering was done? > As for display technologies- records sound better than CD's too.... > And the Drake TR7 sounds better that an Icom 7800..... > > Watch what your happy watching but don't judge flat panel technology > on the crappy sets you see showing crappy distributed signals at > walmart or costco. Yes- there can be problems with motion but done > right it still looks good. Give them a chance- we have had 50+ years > to perfect the CRT technology, and flat panel is-6 to 8 years at the > most. Good luck showing a 1080p24 BlueRay on your Tube! Well, the "crappy sets" are apparently all that is available at ANY store. Flat panels retain the image longer then a CRT. That has always been a problem with flat panels, and still is. It causes the image to 'smear' during rapid movement, making it difficult to impossible to focus on.
