[Gaffer]

In one respect, I can understand your comment about digitalness, but on the other the comment about “analog is dead,” especially when even thinking about discussing the format with respect to antenna, is misleading. Antennas by their nature have never been digital. Electromagnetic Waves (which antennas send and receive) are categorically not ‘digital’.

All their emissions are spectral, and if they were solely digital (transmitting 1s and 0s at the digital level), I’d have been out of a job I spent over 30 years in researching, specifying, developing, testing and producing them and their applications in radar, communications and sensing.

[Ron/GA]

Ok Gaffer, you are right but you are muddying the waters. The information is digital and the electromagnetic wave is analog.

But right now all he needs to know is that he needs a digital antenna and his tv definitely has a digital tuner. Game time is in a few hours. No time to get the theory down pat.

[discostu]

Modern TV transmissions are digital:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television

They’re sending 1s and 0s which is why we now get 4 channels in what used to be one channel. Analog is dead, at least in TV land.

[unlearner]

People don’t watch the analog radio waves when they watch digital TV programming received via radio transmission. They watch images comprised from digital data.

Signals are converted to digital before being viewed. This is why older, analog TV’s had static and grainy images when reception was poor. Modern TV images have blockiness or go completely black when the signal fails.