Everyone should get an OTA antenna if only to use it as a point of comparison. I didn't realize how much Dish was compressing their HD feeds until I did an A-B comparion with my DB4.

Granted not all OTA will be uncompressed,(and some local markets will be better than others) but overall, most OTA will have little to no compression (unless your station is running 5 multi-casts) You won't realize what your HDTV is capable of until you see the Tonight Show or an MLB game OTA.

Switching between my DB4 antenna and Dish, is like night and day. The quality of the OTA feeds is really amazing.

I have had great results with the DB2 as well. Better than any other bowtie designs I have tried. I am intrigued with the new Clearstreams, they have supposedly eliminated the problem of impedance mismatches,

I think this confirms my belief that there is a broader trend back to over the air. There is a compelling argument in favor of OTA digital as either a supplement or replacement of pay TV.

I have had great success with the DB4 and have noticed a dramatic improvement in HD picture quality over my satellite HD locals.

Technically, you could use a coat hanger for HDTV, but reality, most combination (UHF/VHF) antennas have very poor performance on the UHF band and the indoor amplified novelty antennas (often found in big box stores) are prone to suffer from severe multipath as well as generating tremendous noise from their cheap built in amplifiers.

I bought several antennas before I installed a DB4 and the difference was night and day. So before you dismiss these as marketing ploys, keep in mind when you tune an antenna for a specific purpose its performance jumps tremendously. It�s very difficult to find an antenna in a big box store that is tuned to the frequencies where the digital stations typically broadcast and offers good multipath rejection