My reason why I don't give a hoot about the OTA capability
Scott Greczkowski said:
I have been hearing the OTA Guide Data has been scrapped as well but have not got enough information to confirm it to post it here.
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No skin off of my back. I have never even hooked up my UHF roof antennas (yes, I have 2 of them pointing at the two cities) to the 921.
Maybe that is why I have such few problems with the 921.
I use a MYHD PC HDTV card for all my OTA viewing&recording.
It supports 2 ATSC RF connections and outputs it's video on my RP HDTV.
Never planned on using the 921 for OTA because I knew that the 921 would NEVER achieve the functionality in the OTA area that my PC card does.
No slam at DISH - it is just that my OTA card is optimized to do it's OTA job and do it well. The SW has had regular releases for nearly two years.
It is integrated with Titan TV so it is a few mouse clicks to schedule a weeks worth of OTA programming.
It is also setup to use the PSIP info for scheduling but not a single one of my 13 stations that I get broadcast any PSIP info.
Being PC based, the recording lengths are only limited by the size of my disk.
Oh yeah, I can record and playback to my MITS D-VHS deck with that card also. The format is standard so the tapes are playable on other D-VHS decks.
Joe