Ditching Cable Television

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Originally Posted by Rhianne

Although they'll both work to a greater or lesser degree the newer antennae will operate over a necessarily wider band than was ever needed by analogue systems.

Total and absolute nonsense. Shoot the salesman. He is lying.

Old analog channel was 6 Mhz wide. New digital channel is 6 Mhz wide. See that antenna that cost twice as much as the one you bought? They are now telling you that you need that more expensive antenna - and charging three times as much because they called it digital.

Analog and digital TV are both broadcast as analog signals. Instead of speaking in plain language, the transmitter now talks in code. On the same radio waves using the same electromagnetic waves.