[opendtv] Re: Visit at Best Buy
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:18:19 -0500
You would also think that promoting a logical channel also allows things
like advertising a certain show will be on 21-2, making the point about
sub-channels.
- Tom
John Willkie wrote:
> 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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