Man, the thing that will le suck for people in "signal difficult" areas is that they will either get the broadcast, or they won't. That is just the inherent nature of digital. At least with analog you could still see/hear a weak signal, albeit with a lot of snow. That was tolerable. Ever try watching an OTA digital broadcast that kept crapping out every 5 secs? Oh god....that is a craptastic right there.
Really? I used to get weak signal from my Digital Cable, and it wasn't either "there" or "not there". I would start getting noise and artifacts before I would completely loose signal. Is this really have broadcast digital will behave? It seems unlikely, but I really don't know anything about it.
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Man, the thing that will le suck for people in "signal difficult" areas is that they will either get the broadcast, or they won't. That is just the inherent nature of digital. At least with analog you could still see/hear a weak signal, albeit with a lot of snow. That was tolerable. Ever try watching an OTA digital broadcast that kept crapping out every 5 secs? Oh god....that is a craptastic right there.
Really? I used to get weak signal from my Digital Cable, and it wasn't either "there" or "not there". I would start getting noise and artifacts before I would completely loose signal. Is this really have broadcast digital will behave? It seems unlikely, but I really don't know anything about it.