Are Timers and Passes affected by Channel Changes ??

kstuart

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Is there any experience here with how changing your channel lineup affects Timers and Passes on the 622 ?

The system is quite a bit more complicated than the 721 or 521 system where a specific channel number is specified.

For example, I want to remove Map-Down because it is a great idea whose time has not yet come. :) Right now, the only channels that are mapped down are ones that are NOT the same as the SD channel (Discovery and Food) or else ones that I don't watch (A&E and TNT).

Since a bunch of good HD channels are not mapped down (HD-Net and Rave), I'd rather not have the duplication and have everything HD grouped together.

However, I don't want to have timers fail OR else record in SD instead.

So, I was wondering if there was some previous experience with this, thanks!
 
UPDATE: Since Map-Down has not been around very long, I decided to be a guinea pig and try deactivating it. I consulted the Dish PDF file posted by Scott earlier and it does warn of timer problems. So, I deactivated Map-Down and then checked my timers and Passes. It seems to just depend on whether the future timers happen to hit the mapped-down number or the 4-digit number.

For example, The Tudors ended up with no active timers, because the one NEW timer on Sunday happened to have been on 318 Map-Down. So, my fix was to switch from "HD preference" to "HD only", mainly because that would cause the Pass to be re-calculated (I realize that it also has minor advantages, because a Pass won't record an HD version if there is an existing SD version on the DVR, which shouldn't happen usually, but...).

It then did setup correctly a NEW timer for Sunday. But, when you change a parameter, it clears the list of previously recorded episodes (although it does check the DVR list - nice feature!). So, I had to manually skip a couple of upcoming repeats of old episodes - no big deal.
 
I think you're figuring it out but I'll add that using DishPass doesn't tie you to a specific channel, hence the added option for preference for HD, SD, or whatever. DishPass searches against ALL channels. Because of that, I don't know why map-down being on or off would make a difference except in cases where it's already found some episodes to record and has created timers.
 
Actually, in one case, I had tied a Pass to a specific channel that was a mapped-down channel, and the Pass and timer vanished entirely when I turned off map-down.
 

New FSN HD schedule is up. Kind of disappointed.

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