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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
Not too long ago, the US had a few DTV channels on the high band VHF. Through this year, all the VHF DTV channels were eliminated. Just recently, all the DTV channels were reassigned to different locations on the mid-UHF band.
I really like the quality of the DTV reception, it's either perfect or nothing at all.  |
Sorry, I think you may be confused.
Not only will DTV transmitters continue to broadcast on the VHF-High band, there will be
more transmitters on VHF - not only VHF-High (Band III), but also on VHF-Low (Band I and Band II) as well.
Soon, ALL US broadcast TV will be on channels 36 and below.
The spectrum auction paid TV stations to switch from UHF to VHF (low or high), switch from VHF high to VHF-Low (Including the legendary public TV station
WGBH), or give up their spectrum altogether (and even these have the option of remaining licensed TV stations, including must-carry status on cable and satellite providers, if they could find a transmitting station that would sell or donate some of its bits).
Locally, WTLW in Lima, Ohio, moved from channel 44 to channel 4.