So now these customers have to use the 1000.4 Just to get the New HD and Still Need a Wing pointed at the 119 Just to Get there locals in SD.
Well it's even worse than that, if reports here are correct.
What I've seen posted multiple times is that if you do such a setup, you only get the Big 4 locals because they're the only ones that have unique channel numbers (meaning the actual numbers, not the mapdown numbers) on 119. If you try to go to PBS, CW, or MyNetwork, the receiver will try for the Eastern Arc version and fail without trying the 119 version! (The Big 4 locals work because they only exist in HD on Eastern Arc, so if you go to the SD version the receiver knows to go to 119.)
It seems to me that if they're not going to do anything else, they should at least fix this problem I just described. I haven't seen anyone post about it lately, does anyone know if they did fix it somehow?
Since I don't want to lose my locals, crappy though the SD version may be, I think it's about time I demand a rebate for all the new national HD I'm not getting!