[opendtv] Re: Visit at Best Buy
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:02:01 -0800
Promoting the digital PTC is a stupid idea: it will only cause confusion.
Most stations will never use their DTV ptc after transition, and many
stations do not TODAY know what their ultimate channel will be (for example,
when current and DTV channels are non-core.) Promoting RF channels is a
significant investment. Stations are loathe to change callsigns, and avoid
changing RF. Advertising confusing channel numbers don't make sense.
Besides -- aside from RF issues like antenna choice; RF channels are passe.
Virtual (major/minor or one-value) is the future.
John Willkie
-----Original Message-----
From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Shutt
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 8:02 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Visit at Best Buy
I stand corrected on the Samsung T-151. You can enter numbers into the box
directly. However, once so added, it only displays the virtual channel
number (23-1 in our case), and once entered it doesn't display the physical
channel again.
However, our Samsung will not allow you to enter a physical channel number
into the channel memory if the station is not on the air or otherwise not
decodable. So if I know for a fact that there is a Digital Channel 55, but
they are not on the air, I cannot program the number for future use. I must
wait for the station to come on the air (or turn my antenna towards the
station).
Only our Videotek professional receiver always displays both the virtual
channel number and the physical channel number.
So I maintain that for all practical purposes, the physical channel number
does not need to be constantly "promoted." to the general public, and even
more so now with the FCC PSIP mandate that requires us to identify our
digital station by our analog channel number, unless a waiver is granted.
Cheers,
John Shutt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I own two ... a Samsung T-151 and a Motorola box whose name
> I dso not know.
>
> Both allow manual entry of stations. The Samsung is somewhat
> limited, in that if you first enter a station, say physical
> 50, that maps to 25, you cannot enter "25" and get a digital
> that is physical 25, even if in fact one exists and is useable,
> because it just tunes in the digital physical 50 that maps to 25.
> This is a bug.
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