i despise dtv.

Well, if you want it all to come in clear, you have to buy a direction antenna - or face some channels being pixelated due to a weak signal. You see, our old channels ran on who types of aerowaves: VHF and UHF. VHF accomodates channels 2-13 nicely, and UHF picks up channels 13 and above - or so. Your antenna is capable of picking up only UHF or VHF waves well, but nanother in a poorer quality. However, the DTV box needs both sets of signals to pick up all of the broad ranges of channels available in your area. The only efficient way to achieve this is with a directional antenna. Also, directional antennae ignore the bounces made by the waves. TV waves bounce around the room to get to your antenna. They bounce off of walls, pictures, objects in the room. Rabbit ears are affected by these bouncing paths moreso than directional antennae, and so are inferior - and sometimes useless - in the digital age. This is because in digital, if too little of the digital signal is picked up, you get macroblocking (pixelation), jerky motion, freezing up, and even total signal loss - known in short as the digital "cliff". It doesn't take much signal for the DTV box to transmit the show - but sometimes the signal is so weak it can't give the box enough signal - thus, the picture fails to transmit properly. With analog, on the other hand, bits and pieces fly across the room. Some bits make it to the antenna, some do not. The pieces that do not are filled in with static and white noise. Rather than simply failing, the picture just gets static-kier and the sound gets noisier when less signal comes in. I prefer the noise of analog to the failure of digital.