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Chris, you have mis-understood. My mother still has a wired phone that works fine. She used to have an ANALOG cell phone that worked fine in her rural area as well. Now she has no or very poor reception on her present DIGITAL cell phone and must got a nearby town for it to work. If an accident happend on a highway near her house, she USED to be able to report it from the scene with her ANALOG cell phone. Now she cannot.
I call that loss of service!!!! With my experience to date with digital reception, expect the same with digital TV.
As far as the alternate channels, I do not need four alternate weather channels(from FOX, CBS, NBC and ABC). The only real use of the alternate channel that I have seen has been on our local PBS station where an actual program was broadcast on it, if only part time. To date, around here, only one network other than PBS has even used the alternate channel available on digitial. What they broadcast was "Coming soon", no real programming.
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