09-21-2008, 07:58 PM
PeterB wrote:Apartment/TownHouse/Condo Dwellers have a right to have an Antenna/Dish installed.
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.
Why more power?? If you live that far away, get cable.
I do DTV on a portable basis a whole bunch while beta testing, works great with just a stick antenna and a laptop.
If you are that totally freaked out about disaster/emergency info, get an AM Radio.
ALL WIRELESS SIGNALS are weather dependent!!
BGnR