The transition from analog to digital really hurt my desire to watch OTA TV (you caught me! I’m not under 25).
With analog broadcast, any weak signal or interference produced a little bit of static, but you could still see and hear what was being said. With digital, any weak signal means dropped frames and silence or weird glitches. You completely lose what’s happening. Even with a powered antenna, I have frequent issues with weak signal. I could probably try to get a rooftop antenna installed, but there’s no guarantee it would be any better. It’s just easier to find other entertainment at this point.
My phone has the ability to disable Amber alerts separately from most other emergency alerts, but this one went out as an “Extreme threat” alert, and it feels unwise to disable those.
Maybe the fact that a potentially dangerous person exists 7 hours away from me shouldn’t be classified as an extreme threat?
Aside from blocking everything, is there something we can do to get these reclassified, or at least make them regional?