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I get a signal strength reading for 6.1 of around 98%, but no signal strength for 26.1, 38.1 49.1, and 49.4.

They are all selected in the Antenna settup.

I tried the red button reset, but will try it again when I get home and then if that doesn't work, the "unplug" reset.

I'm not sure I have the latest software either. Is there a way to see and to force it to update if it needs to be done?

At least I have 26.1 and 6.1 over the dish feeds. I just would also like them OTA for security.

Correct, the 111 channel isn't HD, nor can it be HD. If they do it, they'll have to temporarily turn on CST HD on one of their other HD slots. They did these last year with HDNet.

So I'm wondering if they're doing it again. Let me know what their response is in that email Raouliii!

Raouliii, can you give us the email address you are using to question Charter on whether they will carry pre-season games? I'd like to send them a few questions also...crossing my fingers on getting a reply from Charter, but can't hurt to fill up their Inbox...

Forcing a download will do nothing if you are using the latest national release of the software, which is 0x17e. This is located in the Info & Test section of the Setup menu. Also take note of your manufacturer number (100 or 700). If you decide to download a CE (beta) version, you will need to know. You can get much more information on the CE program on dbstalk.com (you must register). I don't think that you need new operating software. You just need correct guide and channel data. This is a completely different type of download.

From the setup menu, select Sat & Ant, select Antenna setup, and select Reset Off-Air settings. Go through this process and your HR20 should re-download the local channel data that is necessary for OTA reception. When you are finished with that process, perform a reset (Restart recorder or RBR). If that doesn't fix it, you are probabally going to have to call DIRECTV.

Seems like WVUE fixed their PSIP problem. I checked my Polaroid LCD TV last night, and it no longer locks up when I tune into 8.1. Props to the WVUE TV engineer, Louis I think, that monitors this forum and corrected the problem!

My dish guide says that NFL-HD IS re showing the game SUNDAY @ 10:00 AM
if you want to wait and see it in HD

If you have the nfl hd
My dish guide says that NFL-HD IS re showing the game SUNDAY @ 10:00 AM
if you want to wait and see it in HD
I dont remember if charter has nfl hd or not?

I am still having problems with WDSU-HD and my MyHD card. Last night, My Name is Earl recorded fine with no issues. Scrubs' video froze about 2 minutes into the recording (I could still hear the sound, but the capture file's size did not increase), and ER froze with about 5 minutes left (which really steamed me up!!).

I have no problems capturing from other channels. My signal strength is 95% or so, and I have a fast computer with plenty of HDD space. Also, I had no other programs actively running, except for he usual background stuff (AV software, etc).

Any idea on why this is happening? I'd really like to get the issue fixed before the reruns end and new eps begin broadcasting. Thanks!

Thanks for the head's up! Since its pre-season, I don't have a problem waiting till Sunday to watch the game!!!

Thanks for the information, tuned 8.1 at lunch and no lock up! Wonderful!

I noticed that the Saints game will be broadcast on 38.1 OTA tomorrow but there is no indication that it will be in HD. Does anyone with Charter (St.Tammany) have any indication that the game will be in HD on any Charter channel? If yes, what QAM#?

I did make a couple of minor changes to the way the PSIP data is multiplexed earlier in the week..

Glad to see that it may have helped with the lock up problem.

I will have an engineer in here in a few weeks who is more knowledgeable about all of this, and hopefully we can finally get the guide data correct.

Please let me know via this forum if anything changes for the worse. Sometimes these "experts" can mess things up worse than people like me who know very little about the subject :-)

Louis

My contact at Charter Hammond, the now former operations manager, responded yesterday by letting me know that the new operations manager would need to respond to my inquiry. I have not heard from him as of 5pm Friday. It doesn't look good.

Louis.

Our hero. Getting this psip problem fixed just before Saint season!! Thanks a lot. I haven't had a picture on 8-1 since around the first of the year. I have TV guide, so I don't really care about the program guide. It's just great to have a HD picture and sound back.

Thanks again,

Don H.

Those of you with DirecTv HR20-700 DVR's are you able to pick up PBS channel 12-1 via OTA?

I have my OTA CM4228 antenna split and hooked directly to my TV and the HR20. I pick up all local broadcast channels perfect on both feeds. Except I can not pick up channel 12-1 through the HR20. Channel 12-1 is the only OTA channel that I get the "searching for signal" message on. When I check signal strength on the HR20 I have zero for that channel.

I can watch channel 12-1 PBS on my TV tuner perfectly. Very high signal strength reading on the TV's signal meter, so it 's not a reception problem.

Note: I get all other OTA stations (4-1, 6-1, 8-1, 26-1, 38-1, 49-1, 54-1)..with strong signal strength through the HR20 DVR. Like I said the only staition I don't receive OTA through the HR20 is 12-1.

What is with this?

Thanks in advance!

12-1 comes in just fine on my HR20. It does read a lower signal (80-85% is typical versus 97%+ on all other channels), but I attribute that to my antenna rig and channel 12-1 being VHF (ch 11), not the receiver. Has it always not come in? Maybe you could try resetting the off air settings.

By the way Tony and other Metairie DIRECTVers...
Did anyone else experience major rain fade today between 1:30 and 2:30? I have a slimline 5lnb dish that has been almost impervious to rain fade since I have had it in January. It never has been out for more than a couple of minutes at a frequency averaging maybe once a month. Today I had frequent long outages (over 5 minutes) constantly between 1:30 and 2:30. It was by far the worst incident of rain fade I've ever had. Just curious.

Well this really has me puzzled. I have never been able to pick up 12-1 on on the HR20 and have always been able to pull it in on my TV tuner. I'll try resetting the off air tuner on the DVR, but I just did that a few weeks ago when 6-1 became avaiable.

Yep I lost signal today right before and during that heavy rainstorm that past through the area today. After I lost the signal I switched to the OTA TV tuner , so I really don't know how long the rain fade lasted.
Today signal lost is the first that I have experienced since I've had the 5-LNB AT9 dish.

Thanks Louis
I had not noticed this before, but the WVUE-DT's timestamp information embedded in the PSIP decodes to a time that is plus one hour. All other local DTs decode to the correct time when tuned with my ota rcvr, except for WWL-DT, which is minus one hour.

Is anybody else having problems getting WDSU 6.1 through their D* HR 20? I have reset the off air tuner and still get the searching for signal message. Any ideas? I don't know what else to try. Thanks in advance.

Speaking of WDSU, TiVo is still investigating the issue with the Series 3 not getting guide data for WDSU 6.1 since it's now on channel 21. The case number is 7218267 if anyone else affected wants in.

Question for you... are you not getting the HD version of WDSU via satellite on your HR20?

I don't think DirecTV has WDSU's Over the Air channel defined at its temporary frequency of channel 21. The HR20 is looking for it at it's FCC assigned frequency of 43.

However, the HD satellite feed of WDSU-DT on DirecTV looks quite good to me. I've simply been watching that.

My H20 and HR20 both are getting WDSU-DT @ UHF 21. The H20, which has OTA scan, reports 2 channel 6-1s, one at channel 21 that comes in and another at channel 43 that doesn't. The HR20 doesn't scan, but displays 6-1 just fine. Perhaps you need refreshes of the channel data (Reset off air settings) or updated software (0x17e for HR20-700 or 0F14 for H20-600). Force a download by restarting or RBR and then typing 0 2 4 6 8 into the remote at the "Almost there" screen.

I Don't get WDSU on my HR20-700 either. Never have been able to get it over the air, but do get it via the sat.

I'll have to try the forced download thing sometime in the next couple of days.

I find that 12-1 is a difficult OTA signal for me, but I am able to lock into it with the Silver Sensor.

6-1 is working fine on my TV and both HR20-700's OTA. 6-1 showed up fine on one HR20but I did have to RBR the other because it wouldn't tune the channel at first despite getting a decent signal. OTOH, I have never gotten a strong signal with 20-1 and 6-1 suffers from the same issue at times. But, since I have 6HD via DirecTV, the OTA is just a backup.

I do get 6-1 WDSU on my HR20-700. Last month I did a reset-OTA channels, it found it, listed it in the guide and it tunes in just fine. The only local OTA channel that I get the "searching for signal" message with is 12-1, but I pick that station up fine on my OTA TV tuner.

I would not do a forced download just yet. All that will do is revert you back to the latest National Release. I have the latest CE release and all is good. If I were you I would wait until the next CE release and download that version.

Are you having trouble picking up 6-1 OTA only through the HR20? Can you pick the 6-1 signal up through your TV tuner?

What antenna are you using? Before I bought my CM4228 antenna, I was using a Silver Sensor. I always had trouble with the small indoor antenna finding a direction that I could point it in order to pick up all the channels. If 4-1 and 8-1 came in strong then I would lose the signal on other channels. It might just be that you are not receiving a strong signal on 6-1. Try re-pointing the antenna.

Hmmm... I had the time set correctly.. but the GMT offset was set to -6:00
and it should have been -5:00 ....

did that fix it???

One of the changes that I made last week involved the time settings...
We were transmitting time PSIP data from our HD encoder .. but the set up to correct the PSIP data problem wanted me to set up the time stamp to come from the PSIP MUX.

Louis

I have a CM4228 and am getting a signal strength in the high 80's to low 90's, but when I tune the HR20 to 6.1 it won't display a picture. I don't know if I can pick it up through my tv's tuner because I have been too lazy to get behind there and check.

I will try the RBR and see if that fixes it. If not, I will see if I can get it through my tv tuner bypassing the HR20.

Thanks for the replies.

I checked tonight, and WVUE-DT Fox PSIP time stamp is now decoding to the correct time on my ota rcvr.

Thanks. And BTW, thanks for participating in AVSForum and responding to your viewers concerns.