george conklin wrote:
Even if you have a digital tuner, you are going to find that in urban
areas even within sight of the tower, you are going to have a horrible time
getting OTA digital reception, even with an outside antenna, like in 1948,
but worse.

What the heck are you talking about??!! I currently have a Philips
HDTV and am using an outdoor antenna with rotor. I not only get
perfect reception of the local channels, but depending on the weather,
get several channels from Sacramento, about 180 miles north of me.
Sacramento HDTV stations come in often during morning and evening,
usually the SAME times the analog signals from Sacramento also come in.
The difference is the analog signal will be weak and snowy and the
digital signal is perfect. I also have gotten perfect reception from
stations in Bakersfield (100 miles south of me), Salinas (100+ miles
northwest of me), and even from San Francisco, nearly 200 miles from
me. NEVER a problem with ALL the local channels.

The problem now is that many of the stations broadcasting in HDTV are
using LOW power and will switch to their regular power at a later date.
An engineer from a station in San Louis Obispo (100+ miles from me)
told me that I should get channel 6 in HDTV once they increase to full
power later this year, and that their HDTV signal will actually work
farther than their analog signal.