[opendtv] Re: Visit at Best Buy
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:01:51 -0800
PSIP can be changed in a flash. Few stations are advertising in any sense
their temporary RF channels; FCC rules permit stations to use as the major
channel either their digital RF channel, or their Analog RF channel, or
both. Few are referencing their digital channel. Of course, that will be
the channel number surrendered.
John Willkie
-----Original Message-----
From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cliff Benham
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 7:48 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Visit at Best Buy
I understand why you have set the PSIP values to display 23-1 and 23-2.
What happens when you have to give Channel 23 back to the FCC at the end =
of
the transition? Will you still call "RF Channel 55" Ch 23?
-----Original Message-----
From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Shutt
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 10:17 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Visit at Best Buy
Ralph,
We are a digital broadcaster, and with the several examples of consumer =
STBs=20
we have, to a unit each one requires a complete channel scan as the =
ONLY=20
way to enter a digital station. Some of the early ones will even wipe =
out=20
any previously discovered stations if they happen to be off air at the =
time.=20
Not very conducive to those who have to use an antenna rotor to tune in=20
different stations. However, an early generation flaw in the unit's=20
software, I grant.
Telling our digital viewers we are on UHF channel 55 is meaningless to =
them=20
since all the consumer will ever see is 23-1 and 23-2 as a channel =
number.=20
They will never see the number 55 anywhere, they cannot enter the number =
55=20
(at least on the Samsung, Zenith, and Sony examples we have here) so why =
advertise "Digital 55"?
Cheers,
John Shutt
----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Ralph P. Manfredo" <rmanfredo@xxxxxxxx>
> Here in Silicon Valley, where we get in excess of 15-OTA TV channels, =
only
> one broadcaster informs the viewing public what channel number to find
> digital programming. The TV channel that announces Digital on Channel =
so
> and so is not even one of the four top networks.=20
=20
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