So do the digital converters have any type of amplifier in them, because seeing as the digital signal comes in or it doesn't. At least with analog you could put up with a little fuzz on a channel. Now the second you would hit fuzz on analog, you get nothing with digital. Hopefully the FCC allows the use of more powerful towers once the switch happens. Same problem with HD Radio. Hit that borderline and boom, no more music, where it might be a little staticy on analog.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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So do the digital converters have any type of amplifier in them, because seeing as the digital signal comes in or it doesn't. At least with analog you could put up with a little fuzz on a channel. Now the second you would hit fuzz on analog, you get nothing with digital. Hopefully the FCC allows the use of more powerful towers once the switch happens. Same problem with HD Radio. Hit that borderline and boom, no more music, where it might be a little staticy on analog.