Digital TV

Will digital TV affect the coverage area at all? Where I live now I can not get anything on my rabbit ears. I have Direct TV so it does not really matter but I am curious if I might be able to get more stuff with an antenna once it switches over. I know I would have to get an adapter or something to make it work.

 

I bought a $50 amplified antenna and got all the charlotte HD channels very well in Hudson, I think you're in Lenoir so I don't know how much difference there would be. I'll try to find the model number for the antenna, I gave it away.

It was worth the $50 just to get FOX Widescreen HD over the air.

I just looked around and I think it was a TERK TV5 or TV50 or something like that. Just a rabbit ear style amplified antenna (it plugs into an normal electrical outlet for power) seems like it was more of a T shape with square sides than rabbit ears.

Found it, it was definitely a Terk TV5.

 

Another advantage is that you can usually just switch inputs on your remote and go from your dish to the antenna feed, and the local stuff won't be compressed like the dish feed.

 

I do not have an HD TV, does that matter? If I could get the local channels for free I might just drop my dish. I can not get anything here. When I lived in Granite I could get five or six channels but the quality was marginal on some of them.

 

yeah, the HDTV is needed, analog signals get weaker but with digital you either get it or you don't.