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[HD RECEPTION]

HD over Local Broadcast

Before you buy that Set Top Box, you may want to check first whether your local stations are or will be broadcasting in HD soon.

Try these desktop exercises first before your invest on the equipment.

1.  To determine if your local stations are already broadcasting in HD or when, visit these sites:

  • Metronet.com
  • TitanTV.com
  • Check out this cool database that Joe Reich developed in MS Access.

    Joe writes "I built a small database in Access that allows you to choose the city and state and returns a report showing all digital channels from your choices. It's somwhat crude but gets the job done. The data is from the FCC web site so it should be accurate. It is for my region. Try it out. I though you might be able to post it on your site for others to use."

2.  Now, to find out where exactly the transmitters are with respect to your house, visit

  • www.antennaweb.org - this site outputs a map that tells you where you'd have to point your antenna for best reception.

3 .  Once you've gathered information on who is/will be transmitting in HD in your area, you need to get your antenna.

For antenna recommendations, click here.

4.  For HD programming, i.e., to see what's on TV in HD, go to


Miscellaneous links

  • To determine the latitude and longitude of your location by zip code, visit
    • www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer 

      After your coordinates are returned, click on "Browse the Tiger Map".   This will load a map of your town.  Use the functions on the map to locate your house and obtain exact coordinates.

Now that you have the location of your house and the location of the transmitter both in decimals.