http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/ Engadget HD Comments for Will the digital changeover make people put away the rabbit ears? Probably not http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/
My uncle has it, and it sucks. There's nothing good to see (at least to my very personal taste). The only interesting thing is Discovery HD, but I'm not paying $50 a month just for the Discovery channel

The only other programs I see on the TV are Nova (wich is free, in OTA HD thru PBS) and The Simpson (OTA in HD thru Azteca 24)]]>Jan 19th 2008 7:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/
However, the Dish HD only package for $30 is tempting. I can buy 3 HD movies at list ($34.99) and still pay less each month than what some do for cable :) ]]>Jan 19th 2008 7:18PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/Jan 19th 2008 9:22PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/My friends say the 1080i signal from WITN, 50 miles away, is better than their cable.

All of these signals are UHF. There's one channel broadcasting OTA digital on VHF, and I cannot receive that. Probably the rabbit ears-- anybody got any ideas??]]>Jan 19th 2008 9:41PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/Jan 21st 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/
DTV has done wonders for the OTA marketplace. Where we used to carry 3 models of antennas, we now carry 11. ELEVEN.

To Granny Down East, it's probably not your antenna, it's probably the station. Here in Indianapolis, all of our local stations broadcast digitally, but even with our pretty powerful, amplified antenna at the store, we can hardly get one station. It's because some stations that are already broadcasting digitally are not doing so at full power yet.]]>Jan 19th 2008 10:31PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/(AVSForums) that confirmed what you said- the one VHF digital channel probably necessitates a larger antenna- like a CM bowtie.

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Plus, I get the CW in HD where all the TWC customers get is good old SD :)

If I were looking at a new antenna, I'd double check with the FCC website to see what frequency they will be broadcasting on in 2009 and buy appropriately...so you don't have to buy again in 2009. Frequencies 55(?)-69 are the ones being sold off, not the VHF.]]>Jan 19th 2008 11:02PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/Jan 20th 2008 1:34AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/Jan 20th 2008 1:38PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/
I'm not interested in paying $ 50 a month at least.]]>Jan 21st 2008 3:14AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/
I miss the public access channels on cable (I work at the studio) but I can't pay $50/mo. for something that'll be $60 in 12 months. (Something is wrong when it will near $100/mo. for standard cable.)]]>Jan 21st 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/
I think it's funny, your statement of going where the content is, since with the current writers strike, I'm getting that much better value for money.]]>Jan 21st 2008 1:12PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/
Not everyone is wealthy enough to afford cable or satellite. Before switching to DirecTV, my cable bill (Comcast Silver package) was about $100/mo. DirecTV is better for the first year but about the same for the second. And if someone is having to decide out of desperation whether to heat the house or watch cable/satellite for the same money, the heat wins hands down. And yes, there are people who are that poor in America through no fault of their own.]]>Jan 21st 2008 5:43PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/
Here in Mexico, you don't call "poor" the man who can't afford a $50/mo service. You call "rich" the man who can.

Sometimes it's REALLY hard to believe how wealthy Americans are (in comparsion to us poor Mexicans).. but I'm not willing to trade my liberty for a wealthy life]]>Jan 21st 2008 10:39PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/19/will-the-digital-changeover-make-people-put-away-the-rabbit-ears/Jan 21st 2008 10:42PM