Analog to Digital Transition FAQ
What is the Analog to Digital Transition? The switch from analog to digital broadcast television is referred to as the digital TV (DTV) transition. In 1996, the U.S. Congress authorized the distrib...
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tplife wrote:tazmangk wrote:
just wondered if anyone knows if they make a 12 volt digital tv?..I camp out in the woods at times and still would like to catch the news, weather etc without the noise of a gen set.
Good luck, digital reception distances are not as far as analog, and that's with a good-sized antenna.
Here is what I posted about our first experience with digital OTA broadcasts.
- In November, 2008, we spend a week at Huntington Beach State Park in South Carolina. Analog reception gave us 1 clear channel and 6 snowy ones. (That was without turning the antenna.) Switching to digital, we received 14 clear pictures and one that was breaking up. (Again without turning the antenna.) Turning the standard batwing antenna gave us 3 good analog signals and 15 good digital signals.
Several of the channels were from Wilmington, North Carolina. Wilmington is a test market for the FCC; they have gone completly digital, already, and are broadcasting at full power.
As the crow flies, Wilmington is 85 miles form where we were camped. Of course, this was all costal.
Tom
