While I don't watch much tv, there are times, like tonight, that I am tired but don't want to go to bed at 6:30. On nights like these (and Tuesday nights when Nova and NovaScience is on PBS), I just want to do nothing that takes too much thinking. But, I live in an apt and since switching over to digital the reception is horrible now. I even purchased a newer/better antennae and it still is worse.

Does anyone have this same issue?

I take it you don't have cable? I have TimeWarner, so I didn't notice a difference at all. Did you get the converter box? If not, get one.....they were offering them for free???

Well, at least you have a TV. Mine is 12.5 months old and quit working 2 days ago. Yeah, I called the store. No, they had no pity.

Sally - No, I don't have cable. It is too expensive and since I really don't watch that much TV, I think if I could afford I still wouldn't have it. I do have the converter box and used my coupon to "pay" for it and am now on my 2nd antennae (1st one was my old one and $20.00 for the newer next step up one). I hate the thought of having to buy a more expensive/powerful antennae.

Twink - Sorry about the tv. I'm be pretty mad as it is only a little over 2 years old. The quality of products is not what it used to be. May with the economic changes going on companies will wise up and start producing better quality products that last longer.

You can watch some TV shows online. DDs taught me that one. If they missed a show they liked they would go online to that station and watch it. (Mostly Gray's Anatomy and/or Desperate Housewives ). You can also search for many videos to watch online. I love documentaries and am always watching them. PBS.org has some great ones.

Don't have cable either. Yeah, reception bad. Sometimes, signal too weak to get a picture at all. Other times, it's there, but scrambled. We have 3 PBS channels, a weather channel, the 3 networks, and 3 others. Sometimes, half of them don't work at a time.

Wondering why we even bothered to get a converter box? (We got two free, but purchased one.)

DH thinks that, maybe if he went up on the roof and adjusted angle of antenna, it would help. But, that is just one of many projects on his to-do list, and not his most urgent priority.

~ Faith

We got a converter box on an older TV in the garage. The signal's intermittent. I watch the news on it while I'm going thru the mail.

The TV's on satellite are fine unless there's major bad weather in the area. Then we're reduced to cable.

Yeap. Got all 3 delivery techniques. I am NOT going to miss a second of college football...

Tom

I don't have one of those boxes but my mome does...she got it because she has a dish and in bad weather she looses reception and always had her areal as a back up to get the local chanels. well she had to get that converted box for her areal and now when there is bad weather not only does she loose the pic on her dish but the areal as well.

We've not gone fully digital here yet, that happens next year, but I'm finding similar problems with the digital stations we do have already.

We have a converter box and mostly the digital stations work well, but get a windy day and you can forget it; and the windy day doesn't even have to be in our area.... it can be anywhere along the path that the digital cables use.

I'm not sure whether all our stations will be affected in the same way when we officially change over, but I guess time will tell.