RE: [VAL] TV Antennas and the future of TV

["David Tidmore" <dtidmore@xxxxxxx>]

Bob,
With all due respect, you need to stick to what you know.  Digital
broadcasts are absolutely free from ghosts from the end viewer's
perspective. Multipath interference (ie ghosting) has a totally different
effect on digital broadcast reception as compared to analog.  In analog, the
result is a slightly offset, faded image (ie ghost) on the screen.  In
digital, if the tuner can lock onto the signal, the multipath signal has NO
effect.  What multipath CAN do is so screw up the main signal so much that
an ATSC tuner CAN'T lock onto the signal in which case you simply can't tune
to the station, period.  The multipath reflection problem was a big issue
with some early ATSC receivers that could not handle the problem.  Thanks to
Zenith continuing to work on the issue the past several generations of ATSC
tuners have gotten MUCH better at multipath rejection.   

David