On Jan 13, 9:45*am, "Percival P. Cassidy" wrote:
I can no longer find the message, but I'm sure that it was on one of
these two newsgroups within the past few days that I read an allegation
that the move from analog to digital for TV broadcasting was a plot to
push vast numbers of people to cable or satellite because the digital
signal is receivable only over a very small area.

I mentioned this allegation to a broadcast engineer yesterday. He told
me that in fact many people are not getting good reception of the OTA
digital signals and are moving to cable or satellite because many of the
expensive HD TVs on the market have appallingly insensitive antenna
inputs -- far inferior to the almost-free converter boxes that were
distributed over the last couple of years.

Perce

Humm.

I just dropped Comcast. $180.00 a month for the triple header
internet, phone and TV was just a little nuts.

I live 25 miles from Chicago. Went and purchased a Winegard HD7694P
VHF UHF TV Antenna

Built a MythTV media center.

Has 3 physical digial HD tuners for a total of 4 tuners(one is dual).
With multiplex broadcasts I can record even more(6-8 channels at a
time). Some TB hard drives and a subscription to Schedules Direct for
$20/yr

Not even looking back. Real Digital HD is NOT what you get from
Comcast.

1TB drive divided by approximately 1.6GB per ripped DVD leaves room
for about 600 movies. This does not even include the 1TB drive used
for everyday recording.

I'm not even using the tuners in the TV's

dvi
hdmi