Reply #3: I'm very disappointed in digital broadcast TV [View All]

The majority of the time it works, but there are frequent losses of signal, artifacts, mosaics instead of image, freeze-ups, audio loss or distortion, and so on. They claimed digital TV would be a pristine signal but it was all a lie. It's really erratic. There was a program for a while where you could get up 2 coupons to help defray the cost of buying the converter boxes but that program has ended. So you have to pay full price for a converter box for an older TV like yours. If you live close to the transmitters you should have no trouble, but if you live further away you can expect a lot of erratic performance and there's not a damn thing you can do about it... except for buying expensive cable or satellite service!