On 10 Feb 2005 03:50:41 -0800, (Simon) wrote:

According to US films (!!)
most TV watchers use a poor rabbit-ears aerial on top of their sets,
which cannot be much good.

Most American TV watchers are using cable or building-wide antennae.

American analogue broadcast TV is of such poor quality (technical, not
artistic) that the degradation of a lousy antenna just isn't the worst
problem anyway. If you're stuck with NTSC, there's no real point in
caring about signal quality.