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Brach, I think you are mixing up a few different problems and causes.
-Soft focus on digital cable is because the cable company decided to provide a lousy signal, not because a digital signal is inherently poor.
-Yes, you will get a delay when switching digital channels, whether from an antenna, cable, or satellite. This cannot be completely fixed.
-Loss of signal when it rains is from lousy equipment and practices, if it is a cable system. A good, solid outdoor antenna with a strong signal should not have this problem with over-the-air digital signals, especially after February 2009 when many stations will boost their power.
-We can all still use antennas to watch free broadcast TV, and that will not change at all with digital TV. (I have watched nothing but free digital TV over-the-air for the last two years, and plenty of all-digital OTA TV for five more years before that. Cable companies would like people to think they cannot watch free TV with antennas anymore, or that they will not be able to when broadcast TV goes all-digital, but it is not true.
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Chris
Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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