Sorry bout the choices, I was bound to leave some people out.
I live in a town of less than 10,000 people. We neither lost nor gained a single channel in the switch. Fine by me!
You needed to add the option of 'we had a digital transition? When? i dont remember anything happening…
I live out in the ass end of nowhere, and have had cable since moving in back in 1990. Absolutely no change in anything
Although I have noticed almost every channel available is predominantly infomercials, home shopping, sports, pseudonews, game shows and reality tv…Why do we have 300 channels and never anything to watch?
Everyone I know has cable or satelite. My grandpa is the only exception (because somebody is too stupid to pay the bill on time, Uncle), and he still gets the local station over-the-air somehow.
I saw an NTSC station broadcasting a few weeks ago. I believe some low power repeaters are still working. I have no idea why.
No difference here. A year ago, the only TV we watched was when the Redskins were playing football, so we didn’t have cable or satellite. Eight months ago, my wife and I adopted a toddler. This was a good season to stop watching the Redskins, and take the Firebug to the park instead. We’ve got a converter box, but haven’t even bothered plugging it in.
I actually got more channels in the end as the power went up on all the stations. I’ve got 25 or so channels that I know of, and if I put a rotor on I could get a few more.
Yep, me too. I went from 2-3 channels where you could make out there was a picture under all the static and “snow,” to 30 odd channels with crystal clarity. Yea for HD Football! And even in a blizzard I only lose FOX. So I count the whole thing as a big win.
Yeah, we also forgot “catastrophically affected you because your TV went from fully functional to totally useless for on-air reception but you only watched it 4 hours a week anyway so you didn’t really miss it too much.”
I’ll put in a forum feature request to add a slider control, that way we can have a continuum from “Ecstatically Happy” to “Weeping, Suicidally in the Corner” and distance from “Center of the planet” to “Out beyond Uranus”
I guess I’ll need another slider for channels that extends from -Infinity to +Infinity, with Channels worth watching graphed on the imaginary plane.
Since I have a cable subscription, I didn’t notice any change at all.
I went from having many stations to only PBS and the christian stations working reliably. If the broadcast gods look fondly on me I can watch House or CSI, otherwise the receiver is just a piece of clutter gathering dust 95% of the time.
Plus, I can see the transmitter for one of the stations I can’t receive at my apartment.
I’m surprised – and jealous – that you have a working common antenna. The story I’ve heard is that the cable companies paid to have the apartments remove their common antennas to boost cable sales. In any event, in two apartments I’ve lived in – one in the DC area, and now in central North Carolina – there are connections in the living room to the old community antenna, but the antennas themselves have been removed. I currently live on the first floor, so a working rooftop antenna would be a huge help.
City limits of Philadelphia here.
I lost channel 6, 12, 35, 48, 57, and 65. 29 (Fox, home of most of my favorite shows) is iffy and rarely comes in, in more than half second bursts.
As you might guess by my screen name, I LOVE television. I cannot afford cable. I cannot afford the high speed internet connection necessary for Hulu. I am very disappointed in the digital conversion.
I answered twice, since I started watching digital TV when I lived in KC and then went through the forced transition here in Madison. I didn’t mind it in KC - in fact, I even watched certain programs in HD over the air rather than through the non-HD cable, and I could get pretty much every station clearly, even last summer, before the stations boosted their signals.
Up here, though, I can’t get Fox in the living room at all. The local NBC station broadcasts all the HD programming with surround sound only, which sucks for me because I don’t have a home theater system, and therefore no center channel speaker. And I’m kind of surprised that the local TV stations here haven’t gone HD, although I probably shouldn’t be.