Who Chases with a Satellite Dish (TV)?

[Tom Stefanac]

That's interesting because my house is 40 miles from the transmitter for the station I chase for and I can pick up the digital signal just fine. Not so much so the analog signal.

I have had much the similar experience, analog signals will penetrate slightly farther than digital signals but at that point an analog signal is pretty much noise and static. The digital signals on the other hand appears much cleaner and far more stable in environments where the analog signals may suffer from fading and ghosting.

HD signals are not as robust as SD digital simply because of the higher data rates, you will notice macro blocking as the error correction rates will be much higher but with that said, the quality of ATSC HD signals are superior to anything available in SD and today the cost of LCD screens with built in digital ATSC & QAM tuners is readily dropping. If you make the initial equipment investment you will be more than happy you did.

Well at least that has been my experience.