James Godward said:
There have been good report on HDTV using the old Winegard Batwing antenna. I'm going to be looking for an HDTV card for my computer while I am in the land of electronic stores other than Radio Schlock, UGH! Sometimes it is a pain living in the sticks!! VBG
I will add another comment here... HDTV antennas.
An antenna is an antenna, if it's a broad band antenna designed to pick up channels 2 through 62 (Which the batwings are) and everything in between... Then any signal in that range it's going to work for and, there are some additional frequencies where it will work too (Odd harmonics, IE 3x. 5x. 7x. 9x)
OF course, if you are a manufacturer or seller you can make a lot more profit if you re-label your old antennas "HDTV compatable"
and, of course, up the price.
On the antenna end for broadcast HDTV is like USB2, If it was properly designed for 1.1 (Standard analog broadcast) it will work just fine for HDTV and Digital TV broadcast (or usb 2.0 in the case of cables) no difference at all.
So, go ahead and get a HDTV card that can do regular as well. Best of all 3 worlds
There will come a day (And it's beginning to look like "If I live that long") when analog broadcast TV we have enjoied for the last half century will come to an end and only DIGITAL tv will be out there, HD or not I don't know, but it will be all digital. so get the digital card now and avoid the rush