Life would have been so much easier if the television broadcasters had kept HD signals in the "UHF only" spectrum the FCC originally set out. Luckily, in my area all the broadcasters are using UHF but their digital signal strength is still low compared to their much more powerful analog signals. That will change eventually as analog "goes away" by 2009 or later. Thank you for the good article, I am continually amazed at how many people don't even know that digital HDTV is available over-the-air. There is a tremendous amount of deliberate mis-information out there about broadcast HD and what is required to receive it.
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Martin VanMeter @ Jan 30th 2006 2:31PM
Life would have been so much easier if the television broadcasters had kept HD signals in the "UHF only" spectrum the FCC originally set out. Luckily, in my area all the broadcasters are using UHF but their digital signal strength is still low compared to their much more powerful analog signals. That will change eventually as analog "goes away" by 2009 or later. Thank you for the good article, I am continually amazed at how many people don't even know that digital HDTV is available over-the-air. There is a tremendous amount of deliberate mis-information out there about broadcast HD and what is required to receive it.