[peverett]

I have seen many instances where the analog TV signal had snow, ghosts, etc. The point is, that even with these flaws-the signal was still USEABLE!. This is not at all true of DTV. In poor weather, when it is needed most, I have seen DTV become completely worthless. Luckily analog TV was still being broadcast at that time.

It does not matter how perfect the picture is (or how many channels are available) if the signal cannot be received.

However, I do want to make one thing clear-I am not advocating going back to all analog broadcasting. What I would advocate is to modify the (very poor in my opinion) DTV law to allow(not force-allow) analog broadcasting on a portion of the TV bandwidth. From the MSNBC article and others that I have read, the lower VHF band (2-6) would be the bandwidth of choice.