Mike wrote:
Sounds like a Bobsprit review of his entertainment system (home theater).

At least he would be jelious of your set up.


I doubt he's jealous. My total cost for the AM/FM and HDTV upgrades was
under $400, and the TV will go back to our house in a few weeks.
Bobsprit spends more than that for speaker wire. Actually I mentioned
it here because I'm sure there are some people who are wondering how the
change to digital TV will affect a boat TV. The answer is it will be
nice if you have a good signal, but even within 20 miles of a city, we
would fall back to analog (which won't be there come Feb) a lot.
Hopefully, enough broadcasters will get powerful enough transmitters so
that it will work.

"jeff" wrote in message ...
Mike wrote:
Sounds like a Bobsprit review of his entertainment system (home theater).

At least he would be jelious of your set up.


I doubt he's jealous. My total cost for the AM/FM and HDTV upgrades was
under $400, and the TV will go back to our house in a few weeks. Bobsprit
spends more than that for speaker wire. Actually I mentioned it here
because I'm sure there are some people who are wondering how the change to
digital TV will affect a boat TV. The answer is it will be nice if you
have a good signal, but even within 20 miles of a city, we would fall back
to analog (which won't be there come Feb) a lot. Hopefully, enough
broadcasters will get powerful enough transmitters so that it will work.


What kind of antenna are you using for the HDTV?

The tv antennas are sometimes directional in the azimuth so it may be they
don't want to transmit tv out over the ocean.

Bobsprit will never see his tv signal fade and it's not because of his
equipment.

Mike wrote:
"jeff" wrote in message ...
Mike wrote:
Sounds like a Bobsprit review of his entertainment system (home theater).

At least he would be jelious of your set up.


I doubt he's jealous. My total cost for the AM/FM and HDTV upgrades was
under $400, and the TV will go back to our house in a few weeks. Bobsprit
spends more than that for speaker wire. Actually I mentioned it here
because I'm sure there are some people who are wondering how the change to
digital TV will affect a boat TV. The answer is it will be nice if you
have a good signal, but even within 20 miles of a city, we would fall back
to analog (which won't be there come Feb) a lot. Hopefully, enough
broadcasters will get powerful enough transmitters so that it will work.


What kind of antenna are you using for the HDTV?

The tv antennas are sometimes directional in the azimuth so it may be they
don't want to transmit tv out over the ocean.


The antenna is the 21" Shakespeare (or is a Winnegard? same item, I
think) omnidirectional powered disk that I mounted on the mast 9 years
ago. I can get 3 of the Boston stations here in Wellfleet, which is
about 60 miles from the city, maybe 70 from the transmitters. Portland
however was pretty wimpy because Freeport is boonies from there - I
would think they'd want to go to Brunswick and Bath which is the same
direction. Most of the Providence stations didn't even have DTV last
month!


Bobsprit will never see his tv signal fade and it's not because of his
equipment.

He doesn't even have to unplug the cable!

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:13:10 -0400, jeff wrote:

nice if you have a good signal, but even within 20 miles of a city, we
would fall back to analog (which won't be there come Feb) a lot.

Its funny but the most distant of the local stations, thirty to forty
miles, has a miserable picture on analog, and is perfect with digital.

Casady

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:10:33 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

nice if you have a good signal, but even within 20 miles of a city, we
would fall back to analog (which won't be there come Feb) a lot.

Its funny but the most distant of the local stations, thirty to forty
miles, has a miserable picture on analog, and is perfect with digital.

With digital it's pretty much all or nothing, no middle ground.