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What I have is just a flat square, not rabbit ears. Long ago when I actually used rabbit ears, I remember having to move them around a lot to get decent reception. The flat square stays in one place and works fine. The new antennas should be designed to receive digital signals.

I think in some ways, we have been tossed back to 1950 since HDTV became mandatory. We are experimenting with antennas again to see how well we can get the signals ad to see if we can get more. I'm watching the Steelers/Broncos game, since I have to pull something off of this computer and then I'll go to the laptop, I'll move to the living room. In the computer room, I use a 1984 vintage Commodore 1702 color monitor for a TV. I have one of the government issue converter boxes, a Zenith DTT-900 feeding it. We have a 1982 Zenith with the game on in the living room but we will have to go from FIOS to the antenna with a Zenith DTT-901 box so we can change the picture to wide screen. We've been using that set everyday since early 1983.

I've seen those flat square antenna too.

I know if my maternal grandmother was still alive, she'd still be using her 1962 RCA B&W portable, I think it is a 17 or 19 inch. It has no UHF tuner but with the converter boxes we have now, at least she will be able to see UHF now. B-)