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On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Atom Cogswell wrote:

> On 2/10/2014 6:25 PM, deepmagicbeginshere@gmail.com wrote:
> That works great if you're within range of the broadcast. A lot of
> people are. With the push to digital TV, with its shorter range, a lot
> of people still are not. I live in a metropolitan area, and I know the
> location of the transmitters. One is only about six miles away, and my
> TV reception from that tower is incredibly poor, to the point of being
> unwatchable sometimes. I think they play with the power.
>
> In the old days one might have to put up with static, but digital can't
> hack it with a poor signal. More stuttering than a room full of
> Tourettes syndrome sufferers.
>
It depends on what you expect.

Yes, with analog you could see and hear something that was way down in the 
graininess scale.

But those same stations are actually full on now with digital.  The 
contrast is massive.  I'm willing to live with some problems when most of 
the time I get pictures just like from the local stations.

When the US went to DTV, nobody here in Canada was talking about it.  One 
article covered it briefly, and really dismissed US tv from now on. 
Likely the writer had no experience with over the air tv, which is common; 
people making pronouncements they "know" from elsewhere but not 
experience.

So I didn't bother, hoping prices of DTV sets would become cheaper in 
Canada.  Then in 2011 when Canada went digital at the end of August, I 
bought an LCD DTV set in May, deciding to spend the extra money and 
actually buy a recent tv set, rather than a Commodore CRT monitor fed by a 
VCR.

And from the moment I got that tv set home, I had better reception of US 
stations than I'd ever had in 50 years.  So any dismissal of DTV is likely 
from someone who doesn't have the experience.

    Michael

> The other consideration is that NBC's mainline non-cable coverage of the
> events is terrible, limited in scope.
>

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        olympics - coat hanger hack deepmagicbeginshere@gmail.com - 2014-02-10 17:25 -0800
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