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andyr354
02/15/09

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Nothing for me to pick up in my area. One of those unlucky "fringe" reception people that now receive nothing thanks to digitals shorter broadcast range.
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JC Whitless
02/15/09

@andyr354: Ditto. I now can get the Religious station that is about 10 miles from the house. And that is it. Used to be able to get 25 or 30 channels from neighboring big cities, but being 75 miles away from all of them means we are now in a dead zone.

I feel bad for the suckers outside of town without access to cable or high speed internet. Looks like Benny Hinn Ministries or nothing every night...for the rest of their lives.
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Purple Dave
02/15/09

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Well, all the channels I already got with regular broadcast are listed in green. Everything yellow or below I can't get with either digital or analog. In order to be set up for the digital transition, I'd need to buy at least four new recording devices with ATSC receivers, all from different manufacturers (so the remotes each only work on one device) and only basically benefit by getting a handful of "-2" channels that don't suck, or pay for piped TV. I'm friggen pissed as hell about the DTV transition, especially with how they can't even come clean and admit that the only reason they're forcing this on us is to clear up the analog bandwidth because it penetrates man-made structures better than digital signals, and they discovered that they didn't have enough capacity during the 9/11 attack. I don't really care that that's the true reason for the switch, but they've been feeding us all a line of bull about how reception will be better (yeah, just wait til the public finds out about pixelation due to a weak signal, and how difficult it is to tune in a digital signal without a new smart-antenna).
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GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
02/14/09

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Yay, nothing above yellow in my area! Oh wait, that might not be god. Well, thank the Gods for FiOS.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/15/09

@RbblRbblChzbrgr_GitEmSteveDave:

Mine are mostly green.

16 green

02 yellow

02 orange

08 red
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