[BC] Should We Now Wait on Digital-only TV?

[Richard Fry]

>"A recent NBC Nightly News story claimed rabbit ears
>will NOT work with digital TV. Why is this? One might say
>an RF signal, regardless of modulation, is still propagated
>the same way as any other signal of the same frequency(s).
>True enough. BUT....digital is different as far as reception
>and conversion is concerned."
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FWIW...

Recently I purchased and installed in my home a Toshiba DVD recorder having 
analog / DTV r-f input and demods.

Normally I am hooked up to Comcast analog cable, and view same on several 
flat-screen CRT and LCD displays -- which look very good at any normal 
viewing distance.  Suits me, anyway, and I'm rather hard to please.

Just to report that this DVD recorder flawlessly receives every one of the 
nine OTA DTV programs here using only a set of indoor rabbit ears from an 
old TV set of mine, with no antenna adjustment needed between channels.

I also have an Insignia DTV converter purchased with a gov't credit that can 
do this, but not quite as well as does the Toshiba DVD setup.

So maybe all is not as bleak for everyone as has been given in some of the 
news reports.

RF