OTA HD

[rannis]

Anyone here had experience w/ picking up the HD signal from your local stations? I picked up a HD tuner and hooked it up to my non-HD tv. I was only able to pick up one broadcast, (using rabbit ears) much to my surprise. In the past, I have been able to pick up all my regular local channels w/ just rabbit ears. I was told that on my non-HD tv, the picture would be letterboxed and would look slightly better than SD. This turns out to be true. The HD PBS station does look better. It was my understanding that a stations DTV signal (which is how the HD signal is transmitted) is stronger. Does not seem to be the case. I'm curious as to what is more important, the tuner or the antenna. It could just be the tuner I have is not the best. I did hook the tuner to my dads HD-ready tv. The picture looked pretty good, but again I was surprised that I could not pick up anymore stations than usual.