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To me, the problem is not the converter boxes. I have been using several different models for almost a year now. The problem is that DTV has inherant weaknesses vs analog that could be life threatining. From my experience, it simply craps out in bad weather, not matter what converter box you are using(I am 30 miles from the transmitters). This can be critical in tornado alley. (If any of you say "radio", when was the last time you heard a weather warning on commercial radio or saw a radar picture on a weather radio!!).
In addtion there are millions of people(many low income of jobless now) who could not receive DTV(due to where they live) even if given a new ATSC ready TV and antenna. Is essentially stealing their TV so corporations can buy the spectrum and then sell it back to use fair?
Banning analog TV broadcast either one of the stupidest or crookest communications realated ideas to come out of government in a long time(probably since Armstrong was screwed by Sarnoff on FM radio after WWII).
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