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When you reboot the receiver re-reads all the channel mapping. (That's what the "receiving satellite data" wait is all about). Apparently, for whatever reason, your receiver must have "missed" the channel having been added, rebooting forced it to re-download the channel mapping and fixed the...

Actually, NONE of the existing national HD channels got an MPEG4 "mirror". Channels that already existed like HBOHD, ESPNHD, etc. simply got an additionall channel mapping to the MPEG2 version. This has been discussed in several threads. It is the general understanding that these channels...

Before I headed out for work I only took the time to look at a few channels that we didn't have before (e. g. CNN, Weather, National Geographic, Animal Planet...) However, several people are now reporting over in DBSTalk that the channels that we've had for sometime "in the 70's" are simply...

Hmm.... Indeed. Thanks for the correction.

It's all semantics. And methinks you're splitting hairs. And how the F*** does that pertain to the question I was answering, anyway? I'm and RF engineer. I know what IF means. I know how the LNB works and what it does. The question asked, which I answered, is how the D* receivers...

Oh crap! I missed the party! :( (Didn't see this thread or the similar one at DBSTalk until after the test was over. :( )

Exactly what I said. In fact you quoted me saying that the A-Band and B-Band refer to chunks of the "IF Downlink frequencies". Re-read what you actually quoted! ;) and... Click on the link in my post above.

I am abundantly aware of that. I design satellite uplink systems for a living. I was specifically describing how the DirecTV LNBF's block convert the entire Ka band into two seperate (and quite frequency diverse) downlink IF frequencies, which they call "A-Band" and "B-Band". IOW, I'm...

It will not need an uptate. The last several revs of firmware have been capable of seeing all the transponder frequencies D* has any plans to use in the forseeable future. No updates, nor reboots should be necessary to see the new channels. They'll just "appear" in the guide. If you're...

For the 103 slot, it has seperate pages for Ka/A-Band and Ka/B-Band. 32 transponder slots on each, for a total of 64. However, the frequencies that D* does not have licenses for are flagged "N/A". Here's a PDF whitepaper from Zinwell that describes the DirecTV stacking plan. Note how they...

That would totally fit with their claims of capacity for "over 100" national HD channels ultimately. If they have 16 CONUS TP at 103 and another 16 at 99 after D11 is operational, that will be capacity for 128 national HD channels total from 103 and 99. But..... Aren't there potentially...

I agree with you. The only way I can see them getting the message to the "target audience" and not alarming people who don't need to be alarmed would be to participate in this forum and others like it. That participation is something I've always wanted to see. Now would be as good a time...

Well said, and I generally agree with this. However, at the risk of being called an "appologist" or worse, I think I can see what D*'s motivation is for their lack of comment on this issue. It's probably true that about 1% of their subscriber base has any clue whatsoever that anything was...

It looks like 119 lost all its spots for awhile, but did not lose its CONUS beams. Now the $1,000,000 question: Was this glitch in any way related to the problems they've been having getting the HD channels going at 103(b). ;)

A reset should not be necessary. If your guide is set to "channels I receive" they'll be there. If you're using a "custom favorites" list, you'll have to edit the list to add them. But again, no reset should be necessary.

I guessing that whatever the problem is, it's preventing them from authorizing any receiver to see anything at all on the 103(b) transponders. This would be the only thing I can think of that would have caused the embarassing "channel 498" failure this morning. (Specifically, the card on...

As several people have posted, they could have easily run a test on a backup of all the data, recent data, backed up moments before the test, and still had a "surprise" when they tried to run it on the real system. I suspect it's not a matter of the script handling the data itself, but the...

Indeed you would think that. But they didn't!! DirecTV will spend months squabbling with the most insignificant penny-anti owner of some middle-sized DMA local over carriage rights, yet they grab a station owned by Time Warner before Time Warner cable carries it! :eek: :p

I can almost guarantee you're right about this. "Simulations" are limited in what they can uncover, and the more complex and intertwined the system the further short of a realistic representation such a simulation will fall. I can almost guarantee that D*'s billing/authorization system is...

If I understand correctly, DirecTV will be the first provider to carry CNN-HD. So, if they don't have their problems solved by Saturday, this HD program won't be seen in HD by anybody (unless some cable provider somewhare has picked up CNN-HD in the last three or four days).

Agreed. In New Orleans, I'd rank the HD from our NBC affiliate as presented by D* as the best of the "big 4". "My Name is Earl" looks positively glorious! In New Orleans, our NBC affiliate is delivered to D* via dedicated fiber. This is extremely rare for a local, as most of them are...

As another software engineer, I agree with your assessment. IMHO, number 4 or number 5 are the most likely because they are the hardest to simulate under test. Numbers 1 and 3 are easy to simulate and/or model so shame be unto them if they botched those. 2 is a common one but is...

Fall weather is starting to move in here. Really nice! "Sleeping with the window's open" sort of weather! :up :D

In New Orleans: CBS Affiliate, WWL: No HD news. NBC Affiliate, WDSU: No HD news. ABC Affiliate, WGNO: Stuff from the studio: 720p. Stuff from the field: mixture of 720p and 480i (upconverted). The 480i is sometimes pillarboxed, sometimes cropped. They dabbled in showing the 480i...

Hitting "0" does not work --at all-- on DirecTV's system. More and more call center systems are making "0" do nothing since so many people had learned just to do that to get a human and their intent is to make it HARD to get a human, hoping you can get what you want through the automated...