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I'm in favor of the conversion. The NTSC standard which we have been
saddled with for umpteen years was a compromise standard reached at
the point of the lowest common denominator. It had mostly to do with
backwards compatibilty. The greatest nation on earth has always had
second rate TV quality as a result. The new standard finally puts us
on par with the rest of the world.

I really don't give a rat's patootie one way or the other on the
conversion itself. I am concerned that being in a fringe area w/ issues
programming (and those aren't prime time kinds of programming that I
care about) if the result is we lose OTA reception.

If indeed the conversion does provide a usable signal I can see where
the sidebands could turn out useful assuming the stations choose to do
something of actual value with them (value is, of course, often in the
eye of the beholder). "HD" or any of the other folderol associated w/
the digital transmission as opposed to analog is of absolutely no
interest whatsoever to me. If it's good enough to read most of the text
on the screen, that's good enough; anything better is "whatever".

I think the reviews I've read on the converter boxes worrying about a
pixel or two dropout is simply absurd and can't fathom why anybody
thinks such stuff is important. But, that's me who would normally
prefer to read a book to watching the tube (altho I frequently sorta' do
both and may have the highschool ball game on the radio instead of tv
sound as well ).

If, otoh, the new coverage area is less and we're then in the "no fly
zone", that will be an unsatisfactory result for reasons documented
upthread.

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