Choppy DTV Countdown

[Knaeckebrotsaege]

analog is just superior. simple and rugged.

sure.. digital transmissions might have a better picture (read: HD and stuff like that), but what's the point when there's so many drawbacks!?

i'd rather watch a grainy analog broadcast than nothing at all (digital w. weak signal = nothing)

and that applies to both over-the-air and satellite.

plus the "better picture" argument is pretty much useless anyways cause a lot of channels are transmitting with very low bandwidth.. pixelated garbage :|

[XL290]

put up an attic or rooftop antenna

[filmnet]

Answer is simple, for television, analogue or digital, an outdoor aerial MUST be used. It's no good using an indoor aerial and complaining about the poor quality picture! Indoor aerials are compromises. Television is planned that outdoor aerials are used. By the way there's no such thing as an "HDTV" or "digital" aerial.

[cpjackson79]

Shut up and pay Comcast 140 dollars a month!

[2010mustang2]

I live in gainesville GA I said that becuase you have WSB on

[KrypticK2]

You know the worst part is, you're having this problem with a antenna. I'm actually having this problem with digital cable with a cable box. It gets so bad that the picture completely froze one time for a hour.

[V10H4Z4RD]

yea this happens to us at the house and at the hair salon . DTV is pissing me off , im gonna asume is an antenna problem, plus were by the airport and everytime we get semi trucks passing by it does this . thats my situation

[compboy1]

Your issue could be a few things, but given that you're (presumably) using an indoor antenna, I'd be willing to bet the issue is what's known as multi path interference, which the US DTV format hates, and is common in urban areas. Try moving your antenna closer to a window, or using a directional antenna versus an omni-directinal (e.g. rabbit ears).

As for why the switch was needed, It's mostly due to spectrum space. In the space one analog channel fits, you can fit several DTV channels.

[Jean0987654321]

get sum bootel cable, run another coax cable wire from ur cable internet router to ur tv

[fred30680]

One thing that really hurts people is NO one has built a Digital antenna that works.

I am about 50 miles from Atlanta. I get a bout half of the channels. If you look here on Youtube theres plans to build your own antenna , thats what I did. If I can do it I am sure most of you out there can.

[925732]

here in new york channel 7 and 11 worked fine in the beggining then about two weeks ago both stations cut off and the stations i do have are blocky as all hell.thanks fcc ,go fuck yourselfs

[cheesemomma]

My signal keeps going in and out especially during the good shows.

[Geno2733]

glad I didn't buy the damn box.

[Haekel68]

What was the purpose for shutting down the analog stations anyway? Couldn't we just have both analog and digital?

[chevvok]

probably for the government to make more money. these boxes are a piece of shit. everyone i know say they can only get 2 channels to appear without having it jump all over the place.

[WinterWeatherII]

How can WSB-DT be showing the news and the analog feed be showing Friends, this video is not a comparion as you are viewing two different channels.

[hanktit]

All i been getting is the video on CBS an NBC,no show's at all

[wilsxf314]

Yeah, it's frustrating. You just need a better antenna with as stronger signal reception strength.

[TVcompFrEaK]

my dad bought a new antenna for the digital converter box and it's still choppy sometimes so he's always moving it around.

[98770]

Im lucky because the digital side has more power than the analog side...

[RAQ665]

i hope the dtv transition go smooth for my local tv channels.

[andymate2006]

You need to upgrade your Antenna Filter. I had the exact same problem. Even though I live only 1km away from the Channel 9 Tower in Sydney. I upgraded my filter and the problem went away,

[kibjohn]

Face it: The way of watching television of what it has used to be is ruined! Even worse, television itself. I don't even watch much TV nowadays. I'd be better off not having a TV in the first place because of two things:

1. The DTV Transition

2. Most of TV programming suck anyways.

Watch my rant about DTV and find out why.

[WiiForever302]

You know that mostly the reason why the DTV Transition is happening is because to stop EAS Tests and broadcast emergencies better. So calm down lol.

[hanktit]

It  all when out just a info video on WCBS now

[WiiForever302]

anyways faggots complaning are nerds, the transition already happened so, stop complaning.

[Geno2733]

I actually thought about that... EAS was supposed to be all-digital anyway when the FCC killed off the aging EBS... Wonder how long it will be before they can turn on my TV set remotely...

[paperleight]

When stations first change over to digital only, their antennas may not be running at full power. Two stations in my local area (Tulsa, OK) switched over to digital only on Feb 17. They were CBS affiliate KOTV channel 6, and CW affiliate KQCW channel 12. Both stations are owned & operated by Griffin Communications. Their local news shows mentioned this and they were going to full power this week. This could explain why some stations aren't coming in that well right now.

[Amishman35]

@paperleight I swear, they must use a thermocouple resting on a burning incense stick to power these TV transmitters, they are, as TimTron would put it, piss weak. I could make more power with a dynamic microphone voice coil picking up the sound waves of the pimples on my face going off.

[Nokorola]

I have a small RCA branded VHF/UHF antenna and I went from 1 good channel and 2 respectable ones, to 8 channels and 2 more if I invest in an outdoor antenna,

[JTCPingas09]

DTV is a good idea but so far it's executed very poorly.

[eimac4x1]

Yep, same thing here. Im 60 miles from a major city, and analog reception is crystal clear. With the DTV box, I get drop outs and am even missing some networks. I have a good outdoor antenna. For analog, 100+ miles is no problem. For DTV your lucky to get 20 miles range.

[Amishman35]

I'm in hick country and get at least one group of digital channels. With a BNC to coaxial adapter and a rubber duck antenna, it only occasionaly drops out. With the analog broadcast and a proper set of rabbit ears, it's like looking through a dirty pair of eyeglasses after getting up too fast while holding your breath. This video would be more believable if the analog had dancing lines and fade outs in it. What I mean is, with the crystal clear analog you are getting, digital should be no problm

[raymnsmith]

Hey, thanks for the comment. If you're familiar with the Atlanta local channels, you will know that WATL, the NBC affiliate is on channel 36 and you can see clearly from the video that I am switching back and forth between the channel 2 digital and the channel 36 analog channel. WATL does have a digital feed but it is on channel 36-1. So if the video doesn't look believable, I don't know what to tell ya!

[TVcompFrEaK]

well when I have my digital converter box on my TV, it looks like it does have dancing lines or it's called ghost something and my analog was pretty clear for most of the channels. The box on the TV in living room makes it choppy sometimes, but that's just because of the antenna even though we bought a stronger one and never had a problem before.

[geekforlifevandc]

@Amishman35 channel 36 is a uhf channel uhf channels in analog are very realiable and cant be altered by noise and other things like tall buildings so your comment has no meaning

[Amishman35]

@geekforlifevandc The spirit of the times along with the recession has caused the engineers to forget the reality of "The Bigger The Blob, The Better The Job." You didn't try to take a nice warm shower with a Zippo lighter under the cold water pipe, did you?