Improving VHF & UHF TV channels

Sorry RandB, but if your TV is receiving analogue signals now, it won't receive digital, and you will have to get a set-top box to keep using it. There are two types: Standard, and HD, (which does both).
And by the time that it's all sorted out and just about running right, they'll introduce VHD-3D, and the process will begin again. LOL

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I don't agree that any antenna will pick up a digital signal.

when I bought my digital tv last year, I tried one of the rabbit ear type antennas that was specifically intended for hd and/or digital. didn't work and I am only 35 miles to downton indpls.

honestly, the best solution may be to just buy a digital tv. the picture is fantastic, supposedly even better than cable because the signal isn't compressed. walmart has a 27 in on sale right now for $189.

and thats not true, shinsan, either. my new digital tv has both analog and digital tuners in it so it can receive either type of signal.

We just bought a new tv from Walmart (it might've been the 27" one on sale). Anyway when I went to menu to autoprogram the channels it searched for analog then for digital. It programmed in both.Then on the remote control there is an antenna button I can push to go from analog to digital.

Canfossi in this area if you can pick up 10 stations you're doing well. An antenna will probably bring them in clearer but I doubt you'll get anymore stations. We were running about a 40' antenna with a booster and we were lucky if we could get 5.
Ummm let me guess
CHEX
CKWS
CJOH
Global (CIII I think?)
WWNY
TVO
WHEC
WROC
WUHF
and french CBC?

DaleK, I am in Hastings county, about 50km north-east of Belleville, way out in the sticks. I can get all those channels plus CBC (non-french), some of the US ones are fuzzy at times depending on the weather and which way the antenna is pointing. PBS and the weather network would be nice though. Chris

digital is digital and I doubt you will be able to watch a digital channel with "rabbit ears" I was told we are going to be all digital circa 2020 so you won't be able to "get" anything with your rabbit ears. Soon your computer and your tv are gong to be only one. In my case when I got married 20 years ago I realized how much pornography we bring into our home with the cable tv. and I unppluged the tv. I still watch videos and DVDs. But I control what and when I watchsomething and in our days when you watch a show today I can get it in DVD in one to two months, and even our education improved during the years becasue the amount of documentaries we watch american and foreign. And The amount of money saved is amazing. If you want to be happier unplugge the TV.

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Ya I'm in Hastings too, I'm about 30 km straight north of Belleville. We could usually pick up PBS in the summer only.

er, I watch pbs 90% of the time. digital has 3 pbs stations so always something on to watch. I've owned a tv for 25 years and have never, ever, watched porn. don't have cable, don't have porn on over the air channels. but even when I had cable or directv I never subscribed to a porn channel. they didn't come with the regular package.