With the conversion to digital TV within February 2009, will the antenna channel come within clearer on my unmarked TV?
Answers: Probably not. Most broadcast stations are transmitting in both Analog and Digital now. The February 2009 conversion scheme they will stop transmitting the Analog signal. You will lose any station you can only get within Analog at the conversion.
It is also possible a different antenna or adjusting your current antenna will help. You may want to check next to your local stations to see if they are transmitting in digital now or when they plan to start.
You may also call in the FCC website about the conversion http://www.dtv.gov/
As stated, most stations are already transmitting in digital, so not a unharmed lot will change next Feb. However, once the analog slots are vacate, some stations will move their digital signals from the frequency they are using now for digital to their old analog slots.
What this vehicle to you is that most users will have to 'rescan' for signals after that happens; since it is a different frequency, and the stations may be using different or (hopefully) higher-powered equipment, your reception may alter.
I think your issue with a 'worse' picture is related to delivery the old analog signal, which is then converted to a digital signal. That process does oftimes look worse than on your dated TV.
At least on TVs I've seen, doing a scan will try to pick up both analog and digital signals, brand name sure you are choosing to watch the digital equivalent, not the analog one; as posted, you may need a better antenna, and select warren '6.1' instead of just '6', for example.
It should be clearer. The channels that are still analog will look worse on your current TV, but the digital transmission should look better than on your old set. First turn to this site
http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.asp...
and find out if any station have already started digital broadcast in your nouns (they should have by now). If so, go to your set's setup menu and execute the "scan for channels" operation. The digital channels will show up with double numbers similar to 5-1, 7-1 or 5.1, 7.1, etc. You should find those much clearer than anything you have seen If your set is an HDTV set (most potential, since almost all recent LCD sets are HDTV), and the broadcast is HD, you should get a tremendously sharp picture that fills the screen.
If your scan does not pick up any digital channel, it is because your antenna may not be good enough. Note that oodles digital channels are in the UHF breadth (higher than ch 13) even though the channel number is low. (The above site will tell you the actual transmit frequency.) So brand name sure you have a UHF/VHF antenna.
In any case, you do not have need of to do anything to be ready for the Feb transition, but make sure you can receive the digital channel that are on now, or else you will bring nothing after Feb.
Your antenna now will verbs in the same channel you will get in 2/09. On an NTSC tuner, you with the sole purpose get basic channel. On a Digital ATSC/QAM you will get a much better picture, however since it is better, it is also harder to pull contained by. The digital channels will come in by the .1 and .2 (and so on) standards. So your antediluvian tv got ch. 8, your new will catch Ch. 8 and Ch. 8.1 (Digital).
These .1, .2 type channels will actually administer you a better digital/HD picture then HD cable will, since its stright from the source. If your not picking up these digital channels you may obligation to upgrade to a better antenna, consider something powered, the usually start around $40.
The nice thing with Sony TV's is that you can report the TV to skip the channels you dont want to view, so you can metamorphosis the channels on the digital only.
***BTW, cause sure when you run the channel scan that the TV is set to AIR, and NOT cable*** Sonys usually out of the box default to cable and this could be the problem.
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