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  1. videojanitor

    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    Thanks for the info -- much appreciated. In thinking about this particular situation though, the uplink and/or spot beams are part of the DirecTVs final distribution to customers -- the issue here appears to be with the path the local stations use to get their signal TO DirecTV. Example, when I...
  2. videojanitor

    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    Thanks. I just tuned in and now seeing WFTV (Orlando) for the first time — it’s also stretched SD.
  3. videojanitor

    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    Can you expand on the meanings of LABC, SWUF, and NEUF? What would be interesting is if someone here is in the Tampa area, if they could report what they‘re seeing if they tune to WTVT or WFTS. If they look like “normal” HD, then we would know that DirecTV has access to those feeds,
  4. videojanitor

    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    No problem. I’m trying to make sense of this myself. DirecTV is obviously getting feeds from these stations, but for many many years, you’d be hard pressed to find a station that originates an SD feed. If someone downstream desires SD, they create their own downconvert. For that reason, it makes...
  5. videojanitor

    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    I didn’t see a mention of that in this thread, but that wouldn’t seem to explain since local stations don’t uplink their signals to DirecTV. Rather, the station provides the signal via fiber and/or DirecTV picks it up off-air (with an antenna) at a local receive site in each market.
  6. videojanitor

    Special Hurricane Idalia Coverage on DIRECTV Satellite

    This is a mess right now — some local channels being presented as stretched SD, others window-boxed SD, and some HD.
  7. videojanitor

    NewsMix channel on 200

    Appears to be in alphabetical order, which is kinda dumb.
  8. videojanitor

    Free Previews and Free Channels (Covid-19 Response)

    Thanks. I feel like this is something that existed in the past, but was discontinued. Guess they revived it due to current events. Sent from my iPad using SatelliteGuys mobile app
  9. videojanitor

    Free Previews and Free Channels (Covid-19 Response)

    Anybody else notice NEWSMIX on Ch 200? I don’t recall seeing that before ... no idea if it just appeared, or if I never noticed it. Sent from my iPad using SatelliteGuys mobile app
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