What is a Digital TV Antenna?
A digital TV antenna is a television antenna that allows you to receive digital signals over the air. It is similar to an analog antenna because it interprets signals it receives in order to provide you with television entertainment and media. However, digital signals generally provide a clearer picture, and television is no longer sent over analog signals.
A traditional analog antenna, or "rabbit ears" as they were sometimes called, used to pick up analog RF signals in the air. The antenna could receive the information and display television programming. Digital antennas serve essentially the same function, but the information they are receiving is transmitted digitally, and not with analog RF signals.
A digital TV antenna can be attached directly to your TV. It has to be able to pick up a digital signal, however, so a signal has to be available from a satellite or from another source of digital programming such as a local broadcast station. It can also be attached to the roof of a home where it has access to a digital signal.
In order to transmit the television programming to a TV, the TV must be able to decode the digital signals it receives from the digital TV antenna. All televisions produced and sold after February of 2009 have the ability to decode digital signals built in. Televisions produced prior to 2009 may or may not be able to receive signals from a digital tv antenna, depending on whether the television has a digital converter or not.
https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-digital-tv-antenna.htmI guess this puts a end to my Digital antennae term, certain folks are not so geeky as they thought.. sorry about that...
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