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Yes!!!! The "channel change" bug has been fixed!!! Hooray!!! Thanks, DishNetwork!! |
Originally posted by roddie What's the "channel change" bug? |
Originally posted by rudolpht But has the OTA "Acquiring Sat" bug finally been erradicated? Jerry G, Any insight on the changes. We love the updates whenever they come. Tim BTW post may get more air play if it was titled Dish 6000 software update. |
So far I haven't had the "acquiring sat signal" problem when invoking the guide while watching an OTA station. Time will tell if this has truly been fixed. |
Originally posted by Jerry G You have to admit that Dish does deliver the goods. |
Originally posted by rudolpht I do. It's too bad that the PBS HD signal embedds the channel 80 mapping, I can try to get two stations but the mapping confuses the STB depending on switching sequence. Tim |
Originally posted by fredsal It turns out that they didn't fix the channel mapping problem. Those of us who live in areas where PBS HD broadcasts on virtual channel 80, we still have to flip between Off-Air and Cable as the ANALOG TYPE. bummer. |
I'm gonna verify this again tonight but it appears this has been fixed. Are you sure you have 752? |
Originally posted by ismeltitudeltit Last night I played around with the new software rev and how it handles format switching. Here's what I found: 1. when watching either analog OTA or non-HD sattelite channels, the format seems to default to 4:3 and the stretch mode is whatever you use (with the * button) 2. when watching HD sattelite (HBO-HD or SHO-HD) the stretch mode reverts to "normal" regardless of what you chose with the * button 3. the interesting case is when watching OTA DTV. Here I got mixed results: on some channels the stretch mode was used but on others the mode was "normal". In both cases the image was 4:3 I'm guessing that the broadcasters of OTA DTV are not setting the AFD correctly (the MPEG-2 Active Format Description in the user data field) so that the STB can identify the aspect ratio and do the right thing. It appears that the E* 6000 now scans the AFD to determine the image format and decide if it can apply stretch modes. Does anyone have further information on this? One day we will be able to surf channels and have the STB dynamically select the right stretch mode for each format.. one day.. |