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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV
I will not miss analog TV at all when it goes away in February. Nothing about it, zilch, zip. Nada. Digital is so much more stable and smooth, with more channels, has higher quality (not even to mention HDTV which makes SD analog really look like garbage by comparison). And, all this is on the same antennas I have used for analog TV, though I use a smaller antenna now for my all-digital reception. I started watching digital TV in 2000 and have not watched anything analog (except to test my antique TV sets) in probably six years.
But... This forum is so full of people who whine and moan and groan about digital TV and nit-pick and concentrate on its relatively few drawbacks. Maybe I am in the wrong place.
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I am looking forward to the DTV transition, even though I do not yet have an HD flat-panel TV. The cable system serving my area is Time Warner, which has converted all its systems to 100-percent digital. Even though I no longer have digital cable (returned the box to TW last Saturday and downgraded to expanded basic, channels 2 through 99), I must still be getting remodulated signals (from digital to analog) on the service as I can still get every channel on TW's expanded-basic tier, with no problems. The only difficulty I've had so far (not counting when my area's cable service was first converted to digital earlier this year, when I noticed severe freezeups and pixelization on several occasions, the most notable of which, for me anyway, was when I was watching NBC news one evening very shortly after the conversion of our area's system had been completed) was during a football game last Sunday, during very windy weather here in northeastern Ohio. The picture froze on the screen for a very brief period (only a second or two--the only reason I noticed it was I was concentrating on the game so intensely) and also slight pixelization. Other than that, however, the picture was solid, steady, just what I expect from cable. In fact, since Time Warner converted its northern Ohio/northwestern Pennsylvania systems to full digital, I swear the picture on every channel (including all eight local broadcast channels) is sharper and clearer than it was when the service was all analog. Believe me, the difference
can be noticed on an analog set.
BTW, you mentioned in a previous post that you do not have thunderstorms in your area of California. I find that difficult to believe. I would think that, as warm and downright hot as it can be in most parts of your state, you would get storms off and on all summer long. Hmmm.
