[MEncoder-users] tv tuner card suggestions?

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:30:36PM -0700, Scott W. Larson wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> > Show me reports of someone receiving digital TV from 70-90 miles
> > (113-145 km) without a special rooftop aerial and then maybe I'll
> > believe this.
> 
> That distance is outside the markets of almost all television stations in
> the U.S. The FCC rarely licenses stations to transmit that far and you
> should not expect to easily receive television stations at that distance,
> certainly not with an indoor antenna. That's why so many stations have
> translators here.

"Outside the market" is irrelevant if someone has the expectation of
being able to receive it (because they could with analog) and then is
unable to.

> Nevertheless, here are some interesting reports.

Thanks!

> You can go to the AVS's HDTV Reception forum and do a search on threads
> with "miles" and get dozens of reports of reliable reception from 40-50
> miles away with a typical rooftop antenna. Indoor reception is typically
> more like 20-30 miles, about what you would expect for decent analog
> reception.

I was asking about minimal analog reception as opposed to "decent
analog reception".

Rich