How has the HDTV transition gone for you?

[dejr_8]

We have Direct TV so no problem.

My mom who uses over-the-air TV no longer gets the ABC station and her CBS station goes through stages where it is very pixelated.

 

[OctMtnWoods]

Don't know a single person that its been a problem for. Everyone we know has cable or satellite. Otherwise, we would still be watching the 7 channels (VHF: 2, 4, 5, 7 UHF: 25, 38, 56) we used to receive up until the 1970s. All out of Boston. 2 or 3 more sometimes if you were lucky.

 

[golfgal]

We were out of town last Friday and were not really paying attention to the conversion. We got home and our new HDTV wasn't working. All of our old tvs were just fine. We finally remembered about the conversion and tried resetting our digital box, resetting the tv, everything. We could NOT get the tv to work. I am thinking "great, we spent all this money on this tv and it won't work with the new conversion". I was on hold with the satellite company and DS16 remembered he unplugged something in the back of the box, problem fixed

 

[cltk78]

We have DirectTV also. So no problems here.

 

[RadioNate]

100% a non issue.

I don't know anyone who has had an issue.

 

[KristinBelle]

We get 68 channels with our antenna from Radio Shack. We get all the major networks(some twice Orlando & Tampa signals) plus more, the picture is better then when we had cable and the best part- it's free HDTV.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I don't own an HDTV so it is going very slow for me...

 

[3DisneyBuggs]

My Mom has Fios except in her kitchen. They bought a new HDTV and the converter. When it rains she doesn't get channel 7. She had to reprogram the box already and now CBS is hit or miss.

 

[bicker]

I forgot to extend the rabbit ears on the antenna, on the day of the transition, so we lost one channel for the few hours before I extended them. Other than that, we've gained four new channels.

 

[Imzadi]

I lost a couple PBS stations that used to come through with no cable. And my Ch. 3 (which I need for the VCR,) seems to be permanently frozen to a screen shot of an old Quantum Leap episode. Other than that, it was a no-brainer.

 

[Tikitoi]

Media hype...

 

[bicker]

Media hype...

The media... yeah. Now we can expect to see the sleezier members of the media scouring the Internet for folks willing to feed the continuation of the sensationalistic frenzy. "If you have had problems with the HDTV transition, contact me at blahblahblah@newspaperormagazineX.com." They'll show no interest in people who haven't had any problems with the transition, nor in people who appreciate how much clearer and better HD is. That won't sell newspapers or magazines.

 

[disney1990]

We have Fios in most of the house, so that is ok.

In the office (where the computer is) we have a regular TV with a "box" attached to it. We have lost Channel 7 (ABC) and Channel 9 (CBS) on this television -- even with a new antenna attached, we get nothing.

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

We have cable but we unplugged it and got the converter box. We are moving and don't plan to get cable once we move (we usually only watch the network channels anyways). I find the picture to be totally clear and we have had NO problems with it so far.

We DID have problems with pixellating and freezing when the cable was on, but so far not with the converter box. We did get the kind of antenna that is not rabbit ears, but it sits flat on the shelf. Not sure if that makes a difference.

 

[Mickeypooh99]

As of now we have no local channels. We have Direct tv, but in the summer the leaves come out on all our trees (we live in the woods) and the local stations go out. We still get the other cable channels. We have always had 1 tv in the kitchen with rabbit ears where we watched local stations. We never bought the converter box. So for now we are using the internet and radio for news which is the only thing we use local tv for anyway.

 

[powellrj]

We lost the local ABC affiliate that use to broadcast on the radio. DH use to love to listen to Judge Judy and the local news while he was working so he is disappointed.

 

[shamrock30]

We lost the CW (channel 56) since the conversion, and one public tv station we used to be able to pull in. We've scanned a number of times since June 12. We have to keep moving the antenna around when we change stations--one position won't work for all the stations. I'm glad we aren't huge tv watchers. We'll eventually try a new antenna to see if that helps.

 

[ICF]

much ado about nothing for 99% of people.....

 

[OctMtnWoods]

I forgot to extend the rabbit ears on the antenna, on the day of the transition, so we lost one channel for the few hours before I extended them. Other than that, we've gained four new channels.

Bicker, out of curiosity, how many channels and which ones can you receive from you area by antenna only? Also do you have a roof antenna that you still need to angle to different directions occasionally?

 

[Nancy for Disney]

much ado about nothing for 99% of people.....

I guess I am in the 1%. We used to get NBC and CBS and sometimes ABC. On a very good day we could get FOX. Now we get some NBC sports channel that shows only stuff that no one wants to watch except the athletes family members, CW and if it is raining we can watch The Today Show in the am although it isn't your typical NBC station.

We don't have cable nor do we want cable. We will probably have to get an antenna to attach to our roof now.