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Simmons, who is retired, still uses a dial-up modem for his computer, mostly to save money, he says.

The picture is near perfect for the stations he does receive well - including one that offers wall-to-wall infomercials. Some stations he barely gets - the picture begins to pixelate and then the screen goes blank. 'With a lot of these stations, I still can't get them in, no matter what I do with the antenna,' he says. The blogosphere, too, is chockablock with people complaining about their DTV boxes,įor the record, Simmons isn't using a little set of rabbit ears, but a new, seven-foot-long directional antenna mounted up high, which he can turn in quarter-inch increments for optimum reception. According to a story in Broadcasting & Cable magazine, which caters to the broadcasting industry, the FCC had about 400 operators on duty who have been taking DTV complaint calls, about 7,000 per day, during the transition period.

Simmons, a self-described hermit who lives not far from Twin Brooks Park, in Trumbull, has plenty of company. To make matters worse, reception ranges from poor to 'just plain lousy,' he says, with many of the stations he's used to watching, like Channel 2 (WCBS) and Channel 4 (WNBC), no longer there.

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