In article ,
John Smith wrote:

Really? Something is quite wrong there!

Digital signals should require much less power to deliver the same
"quality" signal.

JS-

Why do you say that?

You can't have a less-than perfect digital TV signal. There is no snow
because a weak digital signal's picture freezes or goes away. Therefore
there is no way to compare quality levels of less-than perfect pictures.

Most of the time my simple antenna picks up good HDTV. However there
are times when reception is poor, and I have to switch to the Analog
tuner. I'd rather have a little snow than no picture at all!

Fred