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Jim Yanik wrote:
I get a lot of audio dropouts on OTA digital TV,despite a strong signal
level(60),as indicated by the built-in meter of the converter.

It's VERY annoying.(but I DO get a nice clear picture and more
channels..)

Can only speak for the UK, but when digital STBs came along they varied
tremendously in quality. (I can see the main London TV mast while typing
this and have a good quality outside aerial.) Not surprisingly the cheaper
ones were worst for blocking and dropouts. My main system uses a Topfield
twin tuner PVR and works perfectly - as it should at the price.

Analog degraded gradually.

Hmm. I don't want any degradation. Here we only have 5 analogue channels,
all on UHF, and the most recently started is not surprisingly CH5. Which
was squeezed into a waveband which didn't really have space for it. And
despite my perfect reception of all others, it isn't great at some times
of the year.

Of course there's a debate about the lower than ideal bitrates used on
digital - but that's another argument.

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*Who is this General Failure chap anyway - and why is he reading my HD? *

Dave Plowman London SW
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