Its seems to me that this question of what coax is better than another is not going to be an easy question to answer from a practical new installation standpoint.
But in my case it was a super easy question as a retrofit problem. And it requires some basic information about antennas, coax characteristics, and most importantly the addition of another absolutely free tool, namely a TV fool report.
And when I am later disappointed to learn that the antenna and coax cabling that came with my house is not the best for digital, I still have to ask how much money it will take to do better. Which is where TV fool comes in. It does not take much knowledge to learn to read such a report, and after spending less than $50.00 on no more than step ladder inside upgrades, I found that I was getting 100% of the channels I could realistically expect to get. Not all TV fool reports are as simple as mine, others will have a want to get marginal channels they really want, but are south of the digital cliff, and they will always wonder if better coax might make that needed difference.
But might be advised to bring Mohammed to the mountain since the mountain will not come to Mohammed. And do that by slupping a light weight LCD set close to the antenna, hooking in a short length of coax, and see if that marginal channel is still a bridge too far.
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High definition is not the definition of my life.
But knowledge is power and HD does have some potential to increase content variety and choices.
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