I personally saw this over the weekend. I knew it would look like this, but I was still amazed. I wish this was around when I was a kid, I had to suffer through fuzzy picture and terrible audio when we didn’t have cable. Of course, you’re receiving digital data and not an analog broadcast that the television can interpret natively. If you have yet to pick up one of the digital converter boxes and you use an antenna to receive your channels, I advise you pick one up. Soon all channels will be purely digital anyway.
The picture will come in 100% clear, there is no fuzziness. The only thing you may notice is that some parts of the picture may have blocks in it or the picture will freeze. This is because some of the data is missing from the stream. Still, I much prefer blocks in the picture over being fuzzy. On top of this, due to the channel using much less bandwidth, you can have channels within channels. So, you may have 3-4 or more different channels on the same channel, because there is plenty of bandwidth available now.
Even though I was expecting this digital move to look the way it does, I was still amazed to see it in person. I have NEVER seen an antenna received channel look so clear. Analog cable looks worse.
If you’re looking for a portable hand held digital television, they are somewhat expensive, and selling like hot cakes. This was the only one I was able to find in stock right now. I’m sure they’re really cool to have around though 
Your old portable televisions will no longer work once the deadline takes effect for all stations to go digital. I would buy one myself if I had the cash just to play around with it
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I am not going to like when the transition is complete to digital TV. Right now I receive an assortment of analog signals. when the switchover to digital is made – I will be without TV. The digital signal is not as strong as the analog signal and thus, does not travel as far before it drops off. I am too far from any of the cities where the digital signals are broadcasted from. There are going to be communities throughout rural America that are left wtihout TV. Cable is not availabe and I do not watch enough TV to buy satellite.
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Hmm.. Where I saw it tested, they were able to pick up all the channels they were able to get before with digital TV, just 100x clearer.
What I would do if I was in your position is research various antennas, I’m sure if you’re able to receive the analog signals you’ll be able to pick up the digital version with a possibly larger antenna.
Most people around this area are very happy with the digital transition, and we are not very close to the major cities where the signal is coming from.