(Login Nafana) Forum Owner Posted Jun 18, 2009 1:47 PM
I've been reading that there are a lot of unhappy people around the country now- and it's not those who had done nothing for DTV- it's people who thought they were all ready for DTV- but when the big switch came last Friday many of them lost their favorite station.
In most cases this occurred when a VHF station was using a temporary UHF channel (as most were). Many people- including TV store salesmen- believed that all DTV was to be on UHF so when people bought digital TVs and converters they were sold UHF antennas.
So when June 12 came and these stations switched their digital to their old VHF channels many people could no longer see them because their "new digital antenna" only gets UHF stations!
I've seen reprints of many irate letters from angry viewers who say things like "Why did WXXX broadcast on ch-56 and now change to channel 10? Why didn't you just stay on ch-56 where I was getting you fine- go back to where you were!"
And to make matters worse it appears that the FCC has underestimated the power level thats required for DTV to duplicate analog service so now a lot of stations are underpowered and can't reach all their OTA audience.
Looks like all this wasn't thought out too well after all.
