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Old 06-12-2009, 02:46 PM
RhythmDoctor RhythmDoctor is offline
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Re: Beyond TV and the Digital Transition - June 12th, 2009

Well, Philly did the switchover, so all the analog stations are gone. I just got done re-mapping my channels manually, because Zap2It's supplied guide channels have not changed yet, and the ones they sent down three months ago had errors.

I started by having my Sony TV's tuner scan for station changes. Then I was able to use my TV's diagnostics menu to determine the new physical channels that each station is now transmitting. With a little effort, I now have all my OTA channels mapped properly using the diagnostics from my TV.

Although there we LOTS MORE frequency changes than I expected, the good news is all my stations that had unreliable reception now have been moved to frequencies that hopefully get better reception.

For those in the Philly area who are interested, here are a few of the new mappings:

3.1 stays at physical channel 26
6.x moves from physical channel 64 to 6
10.x moves from physical channel 67 to 34
12.x moves from physical 50 to 12
17.x moves from physical 54 to 17
35.x moves from physical 34 to 35

Perhaps none of you care about this, but if you're having problems, this gives you the exact mappings you need to do to fix it. Click the link I showed above for instructions on how to manually set up a custom channel lineup.
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Last edited by RhythmDoctor; 06-13-2009 at 11:34 PM.
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