Digital TV Test Town

Two issues with the story. First, "rabbit ears" are actually pretty decent at picking up digital signals, however they need converter box for the TV set to tune in the signal. Therefore, don't toss out those oh so 50's rabbit ears quite yet.

The other concerning issue is that they fail to point out the Wilmington, NC had only 7% OTA viewers. The national average is 15%, so this area was less than half. Therefore, easily 93% of the area's viewers never noticed anything because they are cable or satellite customers. And the stores in the area still ran out of converter boxes. Stay tuned for February, this will be interesting.

Jonas