DTV OTA and electrical storms

[beeper]

Having recently aquired a HDTV tuner, I had my first experience watching OTA DTV during the recent electrical storm the last week of March 2005.

I am located west of the broadcast towers and the electrical storm was farther west and to the south of me quite a distance away. Not close enough to be concerned about viewing during a storm. There may have also been electrical disturbances between me and the tower, although any thunder was heard being west of me and not between me and the tower.

During the electrical storm (7:30 to 8:00 PM) I experienced pixelation and break up of the picture and a black wide horizontal band running through the picture at times. I don't remember the channel that I was viewing. I also have an analog TV in the same room hooked to the same roof antenna. The analog TV didn't have any problem with the picture while the DTV did. This type of disturbance of the DTV has only been witnessed during the storm and not at any other time.

Does anyone have more information or comments if OTA DTV would be more susceptable to interference from an electrical storm then analog broadcast TV?

Thanks,
Beeper

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