09-21-2008, 06:17 PM
There's the problem. For those of us who are apartment dwellers such as myself, the rooftop antenna thing isn't going to be feasible. The stations really need to increase power in a lot of cases in order for us to get decently clean signal. Also, and I've been looking into this a lot, the switch to digital is a REAL problem from the perspective of getting watchable TV in a portable setting-- that is, if you're camping, on the road, in a hurricane- or other disaster-type situation, etc. ... basically you get nothing, whereas with analog you would have at least gotten something, even if it was a bit snowy. A major problem is that the digital signals are just as dependent on weather conditions as analog.