Digital TV Bust

NO TV is better than TV (your government at work for you).
Digital TV is advertised as "better TV" with more channels, but there are almost no signals any longer, unless you live 10-25 miles from the broadcaster. It's a complete bust, sponsored by your government. But why are TV stations so eager to lose around 40% of their viewers?

The video was made in July 2008, no reason broadcasters still have weak digital signals.

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[lonewolfette]

As others have said, if you live in an area with good reception to start with, you're in luck. If you're anywhere else (like reception of two analog channels = no digital) then I hope you've got cable.

[DigitalTVsucks]

Why pay for something that should be free? The air waves belong the the people, not to the FCC or the broadcasters or the politicans. If someone in payoff land got some money under the table to force us to pay for something "we" own, it's not going to happen in my case. I feel ripped off that they sold me 2 converter boxes that can't convert the TV signals because they are too weak.

[bigal8631993]

digital tv fucking sucks.

[MauserKar98k]

Digital TV sucks. I went from having like 24 channels to just 7. It seems like it's just a big scam.

[JesseL85719]

I watch DTV and there is no problem. Get your facts right.

[glk001]

The digital transmissions are weak and digital signal drops off sharpely from the transmission tower...There's been debate to allow broadcaster to up the power, but something has to be done..Once with analog we were able to get from Connecticut, most New York VHF stations along with all major VFH and UHF stations in Ct...Now we got two stations until I did some antenna work to pick up 3 more UHF stations...It's not a good situation at all and we're getting robbed of some good Public Tv stations.

[kk5vn]

@blablissimo The reasons for DTV are: Digital uses a much narrower part of the band. This leaves huge amounts of radio spectrum to be sold off to the highest bidder by the FCC. It leaves more room for cell phones, and digital airwave internet access. Also, the newest police/public safety band will be in the 700 mhz portion. It had nothing to do with the cable providers. With all of the new channels,, cable will most probably die a slow death over DTV.

[kk5vn]

Built a 4 bay (indoor) antenna off of youtube, and am 30 miles out for 57 of the 59 channels I get in Houston.. 66 miles away, I get one way south in West Columbia,, and another way northwest in Bryan. For VHF, I will have to add a couple elements.  I am going to tell ATT to keep the U-Verse. I don't need it. If you don't get good reception: build a better antenna, get it up high, point it properly.

[harvesterofhope420]

dtv = scam.

[RAQ665]

"Better TV" Better TV my ass.

[amcabbott]

cable companies were forced to go digital as well they lost millions in doing so think about all the places that have analog tv (no box) old age homes 2nd 3rd 4th tvs in privet homes all these tvs are going to need a box like satalight customers don't want to pay of course so my cable company is sending at 3 free boxs per house that must cost millions its not the broadcasters that did this its the fcc they want all the analog bandwidth for things like enhanced 911, fire rescue and police radio,s

[kats9livesfive]

I believe the Government got together with the Pay Cable Companies,and made a deal to pass on the extra cash from new forced customers that could not receive programs in a decent manner.. That is a big way to make money for the cAble companies,and I think that getting together with the Government to go Digital was a way of forcing most people to give up and come to the dark side of Paying Cable,and the Cable Companies pass on to the Government some money for bring in more customers..

[Igentenos]

And we had the big antenna on the roof.

[Igentenos]

we used to get 2 channel pretty well here in rural midwest. we now get nothing!!! zip!!!

evenwith the big antenna and everything they recommend. i will not pay $50 month for cable that is more than half garbage and late nite is infomercials. i only like a few shows anyway. The Office. i watch some free episodes online. NBC has free episodes of Dateline and some other shows online. But back to DTV. I feel like no TV watching will be free in the future.