23 Sep
2011
23 Sep
'11
4:14 p.m.
On 23 Sep 2011 at 18:32, TeoZ wrote:
Sure you can buy a converter box (I have a couple
collecting dust) but
you don't get HDTV with those so you can either lose much of the
broadcast or get stuck with a bunch of black on the screen.
Sigh, I still use an OTA converter box. No cable; I'd have to go
dish--and there are enough obstructions around that viewing would get
"interesting" once the wind came up.
There's just something that irks me to pay to watch advertisements
with some (really awful) program content mixed in.
In spite of upgrading my antenna and having most of the transmitters
within 10 miles, I find OTA DTV reception to be remarkably sensitive
to rain and wind effects and find the problems that stations have
with the transmission equipment to be much more numerous (i.e. flat-
out outages).
I watch a lot less TV now than I did before the switchover. Mostly
due to greatly inferior content.
--Chuck