Almost a year since analog TV died

[peverett]

A strange thing happened here. For a while analog was completely dark. Now, after watching DTV over one of my analog sets using a converter, if I turn the converter off, a weak analog signal appears. I guess a low power analog station has turned on. I have not had a chance to investigate yet.

DTV works as it always has for me-ok in good weather, but garbage in poor weather. The most sorry thing for me is that this spectrum was essentially given the phone companies so they could charge us outrageous rent on it. Not the best use of a public asset in my opinion. I am completly against any more of this(even though I know the FCC is talking about it).

As to radio, we still have analog radio in the US with no plans to change as far as I know. The issue for me, at least with AM, is the programming is horrible(This is also true of most TV programming).

I have read that the UK is planning to go to only digital radio, but is having second thoughts-to many analog sets in use, especially in vehicles.