To respond to the this and the previous 3 or 4 comments I would just like to add that if you are living near the border of our coverage area you will need more signal to get a better quality of picture. This is true with the old analog signals as well. The farther away from our Winnabow, NC tower site you are, the more gain you will need from your antenna receive system. As has been mentioned here before, digital is less forgiving than analog was when it comes to seeing a picture or not. You could watch the analog signal all the way to just being able to see the picture through all of the snow if you wanted to. Digital does not work that way. It has a point where if you are not getting a certain signal strength, you will lose the picture all together... or at least have it pixelate and/or freeze frame and drop audio. There is nothing the local broadcasters can do about this other than increase our output power. WWAY is currently operating at the maximum FCC allowed wattage. I can't speak on behalf of the other stations in our area. So if you are not getting a good, consistant picture from WWAY, you will have to improve your antenna or position of your antenna. We have found that moving an antenna as little as 3 or 4 feet can mean the difference in getting a good signal or not. So I would suggest trying everything you can with what you have first, then if that don't work you may need to look into getting a better antenna or amplifier.