If the DTV terrestrial broadcast signal is very weak, don't you have a free satellite broadcast such as the equivalent of the European DVB-S service which broadcasts the same channels you would have picked up using your UHF antenna.
I guess that's the price we pay for not having to have a television license system, huh? There's no "free" sat tv here in the USA that you can get with less than a swimming-pool size dish, and even at that, it's mostly encrypted mush.
Until I was in other countries, I always thought that the proliferation of sat dish systems was evidence of paying subscribers to TV services similar to our DishNetworks here in North America. I was astonished to find out that it was just a system that's basically a really, really, really tall antenna tower for free broadcasts.
What's more amazing is that in places with the DVT-B standard, I can get a $19 plug-in device for a cheap laptop and get a good signal almost everywhere. I just can't believe how much we've let our broadcast infrastructure become a relic - and how much this DTV thing here in the USA is a boondoggle.
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