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Originally Posted by GUI
We now have around 10 channels (used to be three), picture is great (I guess there's a reason for the switch), and we no longer have to turn off the wireless broadband receiver to watch PBS.
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For digital TV, the received signal is binary
. By that horrible pun, I mean it has basically two states: All (great picture quality) or nothing (not even a snowy picture). The drop off between the 2 is a sharp one so range is a major factor and the signals propagate differently. This is something they learned in the Wilmington, NC test as some people completely lost NBC.
The FCC has approved Distributed Transmission Systems (DTS) to hopefully fix the holes, but that too will take time. (I am not saying that is the reason for the potential delay Al is talking about)