okay so i've been flying analog on fat shark dominator v3s for about two years and i genuinely love the image when conditions are right. but a buddy of mine just got the DJI goggles 2 with O3 air unit and i flew his quad once at our field and the picture quality is kind of insane, not gonna lie. way less breakup, colors look real, latency felt okay but not sure if my head was just adjusting

the thing is i've put a lot of money into my analog setup. i have a bunch of vtxs, several different antenna combos, even have a rapidfire module in the dominators which i spent way too much on. switching to digital means basically starting from scratch on the transmitter side and the goggles themselves

im also in a country where the 5.8ghz band stuff is a bit gray area legally so i dont know if that changes anything for DJI specifically. anyone who's made this switch have regrets? or is analog basically dead for anything other than racing at this point

i made this switch about a year ago and honestly i don't miss analog at all for freestyle. the O3 picture is just genuinely better and the latency is fine, like it's not imperceptible but you adapt within a few flights. what i DO miss is how cheap and simple analog vtx stuff is - if something breaks on a vtx it's a $15 problem, if something breaks on an air unit it's a $80-100 problem. and if you crash into water or have a real hard impact the air unit is a lot more likely to just die on you than a basic analog vtx

the rapidfire is a seriously good module though so if your analog chain is solid i get why you'd be hesitant. if you have a buddy with digital gear i'd honestly just fly with his stuff another few sessions before committing

analog isnt dead for racing, a lot of competitive guys still prefer it because latency actually does matter at that level and the vtx ecosystem for racing is super mature. but for freestyle and cinematic stuff digital just kind of won. the antenna situation on analog is honestly way more interesting to tinker with though, theres so much you can do with different gain antennas and diversity setups that you just kind of hand off to the system with DJI

also not sure what country you're in but DJI operates on 2.4 and 5.8 so yeah might be worth double checking