[opendtv] Re: Visit at Best Buy
- From: Doug McDonald <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:32:34 -0600
John Shutt wrote:
> Ralph,
>
> We are a digital broadcaster, and with the several examples of consumer STBs
> we have, to a unit each one requires a complete channel scan as the ONLY
> way to enter a digital station.
Then you have some pretty strange boxes!!
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.
The Motorola is, however, not so limited: you can try any
digital number and it will enter the results in its list
if it finds something. You can even enter multiple stations
that are at the same physical digital channel, if your antenna
system is capable of discrimination them well enough. There are
two ways to enter physical channels, however, and only one
of them allows this, the other has the same problem as the Samsung.
Doug McDonald
Some of the early ones will even wipe out
> any previously discovered stations if they happen to be off air at the time.
> Not very conducive to those who have to use an antenna rotor to tune in
> different stations. However, an early generation flaw in the unit's
> software, I grant.
>
> Telling our digital viewers we are on UHF channel 55 is meaningless to them
> since all the consumer will ever see is 23-1 and 23-2 as a channel number.
> They will never see the number 55 anywhere, they cannot enter the number 55
> (at least on the Samsung, Zenith, and Sony examples we have here) so why
> advertise "Digital 55"?
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Shutt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.
>
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