As expected, some Minnesotans aren’t too happy with the digital-TV transition.
For such people in and around the Twin Cities, reception is the key issue. They are trying to pull in all available digital channels using their antennas and digital converters hooked up to their older TVs, but having difficulties even after doing a required channel-rescan procedure.
Here are two such e-mails I’ve received since the DTV-transition late Friday night:
From Cindy: We were getting all the digital channels with our converter boxes prior to June 13th. Upon rescanning this weekend, we are unable to get KMSP at all. We are located between Somerset and Hudson, and have two different converters on two separate TVs, with two different antennas. Cannot get 9 now on either after the rescan.
We also rescanned my mother in laws, she got all the channels before. Now she cannot get nine on either of her TVs, one with digital converter, the other built in digital tuner. We also had trouble getting 11 to come in. She is in between Somerset and Osceola.
From Linda: I read your article in the Sunday Pioneer Press. I'm wondering how many people you interviewed and where do these people live?
I live in Western Wisconsin along the Mississippi River, a little south of Red Wing, MN. The digital conversion has been a nightmare for us. We have one HDTV. It does not work very well. We bought a new antenna, added an amplifier and bought converter boxes for the remaining TV's in the house. If the wind blows at all, we get no reception. We cannot get Channel 4 at all….Yes, TV as we knew it is over. The good old days were a vast improvement over the current digital system.
