Dish Network… What Transition?....LOL

I have been hearing of cable customers who are getting screwed as they change the number of stations they are getting and the meoney their paying. So far as I can see Satellite is the best deal for the money.

Trouble in Syracuse isn’t consumers being prepared. The local NBC affiliate, WSTM, won’t be getting their digital signal up until Sunday, at least… which means - no Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. I could care less about Law & Order or the Tonight Show. But, seriously - Game 7? Due to the backlash, they’re working on re-starting the analog signal. But, that’s our transition fiasco… ill-prepared station.

Kenneth, say it isn’t so! Syracuse? No Stanley Cup? Like you guys don’t suffer enough up there.

It is so. We’ll see if they can float something up in the air before game-time.

In Canada, we’d lynch someone for this, and no judge would ever convice you.  No Stanley Cup Game 7????

<goes and huddles in the corner muttering “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home…>

OK, dirty little secret. I was on the Wheel of Fortune about 20 years ago. Solved the puzzle, “ICE HOCKEY’S TOP PRIZE” (thank you, Vanna). Got an extra $500 for naming Stanley Cup. Hockey is fine but wimpy compared to Ultimate Frisbee.

Living in Wilmington, NC we really didn’t have a choice but I think it went over fine.  Good luck to the rest of the country.

Hello Out There in Tv Land.Transition Day Went Off
With Out A Hitch Here In The Land Of Oz.

NBC ended up putting a standard def signal up on the local CBS affiliate subchannel (which, thankfully, they also own). Getting to watch after all!

The transition went pretty smooth here in Chicago. I stayed up ‘till midnight to watch it happen. WCIU gave a guided tour of their facilities and they did a countdown as they shutdown the transmitter. Analog Channel 26 went offline precisely at midnight. About 10 seconds later most of the other channels also went offline. Well, I got to witness an epoch in the history of television. Since I bought a DTV receiver for my computer early this year I was well prepared for the transition. And now I can find another use for my makeshift antenna that consists of: a car radio antenna I found in a parking lot, a 3 foot coaxial cable, and a 4 inch wire to connect the afore mentioned items. LOL   In the words of Edward R. Murrow, “Good night, and good luck.”

@R, thanks for the description. A little nerdy but cool!

antenna input
just to be safe i used my tv menu to erase all channels(you can’t add channels like my analog tv could). then i scanned. all channels were where they were previously. the fcc(or someother) site listed my local channels and indicated their new channel assignments.
i beleve this has been a conspiracy from the electronics industry and govment to sell higher tech gadgets not to free up airwaves.

Here in Colorado Springs, we were having lightning storms and the NBC and PBS digital channels (OTA) all went down 5-1, 5-2, 8-1, 8-3, and 8-5. The thing that really sucked about it was the third period of the Stanley Cup Final was on. Last week the CBS affiliate was down for almost three days due to a lightning strike.

To me it sounds like the broadcast industry needs to fix some very serious reliability issues with DTV broadcast transmission equiment. This maybe serious enough to be considered a national security issue.

@Steve There must be someone you can sue!

Lost ABC and CBS here in Chicago if you are running Media Center on Windows 7.  Took me a few hours to figure out what the problem was. Turns out Media Center doesn’t just scan for channels the way a normal TV does. It downloads guide data based on your location and the searches for the channel based on where the guide tells it to look.

Now the problems start when the guide tells Media Center to look in the wrong place. After the digital switch here in Chicago ABC moved from channel 52 to channel 7 and CBS moved from 3 to 12. These are their physical locations which differ from their old analogue brand numbers, which love on through the magic of virtual channel numbers.

The guide data has not yet been fixed as of 7am on Tuesday June 16th, 4 days after the switch.

You can manually add these 2 channels to the guide, but because there is no guide data associated with them, automatic recordings do not work, although you can program it to record at specific times, like an old school VCR. But this is just a waste of time.  This a serious flaw with Media Center!

I had some recording problems with CBS on my Media Center

I live and work in Bucks County Pa.  Prior to the transition I had no trouble getting WPVI 6 ABC at either my home or office when using the UHF band .Since WPVI went to VHF band only some of my sets at home get the signal and it is weak and breaks up. I have good equipment and antennas.  I can not get any signal at my office.  My home is 22.4 miles from the station and my office is 26.7. Clearly the power needs to receive this station were poorly reviewed prior to June 12th.

i have been watching digital tv for around 6 months. channel 7 was a bit difficult, and they changed from 63 ufh signal to 53 and became super. i was delighted watching the nba finals. until the 12 arrived and channel 7 dissapeared, and still i cannot get nothing. i got more channels, but i do not know what signal they have, in the large la, aparently they still have the signal on 53, but i do not understand why stopped working on the 12.

I have had no TV signal since the change. I have a Haier flatscreen that I thought woudl be OK but I still cannot find out whether or not it has an internal tuner. Neither the manufacturer or dealer can confirm either way.

Right now I am so fed up with this we are going to try and give up TV altogether and see how it goes. We already gave up cable due to costs and terrible programming and this DTV changeover is the last straw.