DTV transition "Soft test" on 11-20-08 in Chicago

[CarlV]

I just got done hooking up one of my coupon boxes and running it a couple hours. Man, is it great!
The zero loss in whatever compressed signal more than compensates for signal loss from "analog". Better than cable, as good as satellite on a good day. I get 25 great channels, some I had no idea existed, and a few that stink as one would expect, about 31 total.
Not all the stations are broadcasting digital yet so there would be more to come I am thinking.
I will be happy to cancel my basic cable now. I will not miss it as the only real thing to watch is ESPN and it is has gone so far downhill. They have totally ruined the MNF broadcast by having the social crap instead of just calling the game. It's on the radio anyway and they do not fluff it up with such nonsense.
And if the cheapie box burns up although this did not get warm after 2 hours, I will buy a real nice one to replace it. Should have done this as soon as I got my coupons instead of putting it off until the last second. I could have saved some real money canceling a couple months ago and bought more music instead.
Oh yeah, our awesome jazz station runs a feed over the digital too.

Carl