Thread: Why does zero OTA signal on TV2 cause TV1 to loose sat signal ?

Originally Posted by BobaBird

And it's quicker than getting the station to act.

Seems maybe the receiver is trying to tune the empty markers like they were real sub-channels, and not behaving well when no video is found? Getting rid of them, either from the tuner's list or preferably at the source*, will likely clear up the second cause of disruption for the other viewer.

* a re-scan would still be needed

This channel has been adding content to the subs at random, so I was just curious to look at them from time to time to see what programing is there...of course all the channels have terrible quality.


Thanks for all the feedback

Originally Posted by JohnL

Anytime your receiver is recording or tuned to a channel be that OTA or Satellite and it loses signal it will cause the other TUNERS on the DVR to lose their signal.

Ummm, did you just re-state what he said ? I think he already knows this and is asking "why?".

That said, I'd really like to believe that this is an issue Dish would really fix if they (easily) could. Maybe it's not possible. Maybe it's a limitation of the chipset.