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Originally Posted by ctc17

Interesting how people used to care about reception and interference. Now they just give us this junk and no one cares how well it works. Americas dont care either we passively shrug our shoulders and so ohh well.

With cable TV, it doesn't matter if a tuner is sensitive. OTA DTV put the nail in the coffins of ghosting and interference. TV makers put in the cheapest and crummiest DTV tuner they can get away with into their throwaway sets because hardly anyone uses them.

I remember reading that less than 10% of all TV users still use over-the-air signals, and that TV station owners were complaining that they had to install expensive DTV transmitters at their own expense for small local audiences. Many wanted to just feed cable systems directly because they'd retain 90%+ of their audiences anyway.