rvten
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See many station's are making the switch over. Leaving many without Over the air TV.
Now maybe those who have not switched will do so. Take the converter out of the closet and hookm it up.
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rvten wrote:See many station's are making the switch over. Leaving many without Over the air TV.
Now maybe those who have not switched will do so. Take the converter out of the closet and hookm it up.
It's all peachy for those who can get an OTA digital signal, for the rest of us we are out of luck with this deal. We received 12 OTA analog channels, and with digital we receive exactly 0. Yes, I've done the antenna thing, boosters, height, position, direction etc, but no joy.
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Doug4.7
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rvten wrote:See many station's are making the switch over. Leaving many without Over the air TV. You make it sound as if being without TV is a bad thing....
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rvten
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I receave no DTV at home either. Just use on the road for local TV. See Tv stations have made the change here in Texas.
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One station here in Detroit, the analog transmitter is now one show "how to covert to digital" and the digital tier one is regular scheduled programming.
That's the bad news
The good news is one of my Digital Video Recorders has the ability to play medium nice with it's partner converter.. I can get tier 1, on all my stations, tier 2 or 3 on some of 'em. Of course the TV-Guide and show search don't work any more
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
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Wait till the switch is fully completed before you go condemning digital TV recieption. Many stations are running their analogue stations on their high-power transmitters, on their taller antennas. The digital antennas are usually located lower down on the towers, and on lower power temporary transmitters. After the switch, the temporary transmitters will be taken offline, and the digital signals moved to the high-power transmitters and the taller antennas that once transmitted the analogue stations
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rvten wrote:See many station's are making the switch over. Leaving many without Over the air TV.
Now maybe those who have not switched will do so. Take the converter out of the closet and hookm it up.
People have known this was coming for how long? WAY TOO LONG! All we kept seeing across the bottom of the TV shows was the need to get a converter box, etc. If someone hasn't done this, it's their own fault.
My brother has a newer TV, only about 3 years old, a bigscreen Mitsubishi but it does NOT have a digital tuner. He does have cable so it really didn't matter to him anyway. And just because someone has a newer model TV doesn't mean it has the proper, digital tuner.
But he wanted to see just what channels he could get with the new digital signal. He bought a converter box and cheap antenna from Wal-Mart and he gets the local stations where he lives in Oregon and they look excellent. He could NOT get these stations before the change over.
I gota feeling the people who are having trouble just don't have the proper hardware or don't have it connected correctly.
Another thing, they did a 1/2 hour special on TV about these converter boxes, and they are NOT the same. Some work better than others. So if anyone has one that doens't work, try a different brand as suggested on the special show.
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rvten
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We only got 2 analog station in the past. They were very fuzzy. Too many hills and trees on the Plateau.
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Frankjake
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rvten wrote:We only got 2 analog station in the past. They were very fuzzy. Too many hills and trees on the Plateau.
That was the same for my brother. But once he bought one of the converter boxes and a cheap digital antenna, he now gets them. But like you, there are only 2 local stations where he lives. He still has to have cable to get all the other channels.
Where we live in Oregon, they don't offer FOX or the WB, so it wouldn't matter what equipment we have. If they don't send out a signal, we aren't going to pick it up. 
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We're in FL for the season and don't have cable here. We do have the box, but didn't hook it up since the time was extended. Some stations here (none of the main ones,) did go digital because of cost, and I just checked and we get a blue screen - not snow or static, just blue. I should hook it up, but I'm secretly hoping it won't work so we can get cable We have it at home, so there's no issue there.
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