5710-Test Channel

cditty

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Feb 22, 2006

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Northeast Louisiana

• Jan 30, 2010

• #1

Does everyone have this? It says HD Theater on the bottom of the screen. It's showing some car show.

I've never seen it in my guide.

 

Koilvr

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Oct 5, 2008

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• Jan 30, 2010

• #2

yes it has been there forever and ever its just a duplicate of HD Theater

 

cditty

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Feb 22, 2006

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Northeast Louisiana

• Jan 30, 2010

• #3

Thanks- I'm wearing my idiot hat tonight. Saw Test, saw HD, got too excited.

 

yaz96

Baby, It's Cold Outside

Dec 22, 2005

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Front Range, Colorado

• Jan 31, 2010

• #4

Why do they still waste bandwidth for this? Why not put up a "real" channel?

 

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garys

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Sep 29, 2005

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Greentown, Pennsylvania, United States

• Jan 31, 2010

• #5

yaz96 said:

Why do they still waste bandwidth for this? Why not put up a "real" channel?

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The "real" channel is up. It is mirrored to the test channel number and does not waste any bandwidth, which is why Dish does do it.

 

Slamminc11

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Jan 28, 2005

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• Jan 31, 2010

• #6

garys said:

The "real" channel is up. It is mirrored to the test channel number and does not waste any bandwidth, which is why Dish does do it.

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stop...you are making too much sense for this early in the morning!

 

yaz96

Baby, It's Cold Outside

Dec 22, 2005

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Front Range, Colorado

• Jan 31, 2010

• #7

garys said:

The "real" channel is up. It is mirrored to the test channel number and does not waste any bandwidth, which is why Dish does do it.

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I meant a "real" channel like ESPNU, BBCA, etc., not two of the same channel. I didn't realize it was a mirror.

 

Rangers484

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Jul 21, 2007

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Palmyra, Virginia, United States

• Jan 31, 2010

• #8

What is the point of the test channel? It has been there for years showing HD Theater.

What are they testing?

 

Koilvr

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Oct 5, 2008

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• Jan 31, 2010

• #9

They wanna see if It works so they can ad something soooon!

 

sA :: Shaggy

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Sep 18, 2005

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5701 S Santa Fe Dr

• Jan 31, 2010

• #10

no it is for installers. Before a receiver is activated it can get channels like 101, but it can also get the test channel.

This comes in very handy when you want to make sure the hd settings are right for the tv. also it gives the cust something pretty to look at while the receiver is being activated.

aka makes them shut up.

 

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tritron

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Jun 14, 2009

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Denver, co

• Jan 31, 2010

• #11

there are like four hd theathers. but since a
hd channels are on diffrent frequencies i don't see how that can be done without waste. there are 4xxx that mirror xxx channels but are in hd also 9xxx and 5xxx

 

digiblur

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Jun 8, 2005

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Louisiana

• Jan 31, 2010

• #12

Channel numbers are not frequencies. Dish could send up one video stream of a channel and map 50 channel numbers to it. It would only be the bandwidth of one video stream.

 

Koilvr

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Oct 5, 2008

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• Jan 31, 2010

• #13

tritron said:

there are like four hd theathers. but since a
hd channels are on diffrent frequencies i don't see how that can be done without waste. there are 4xxx that mirror xxx channels but are in hd also 9xxx and 5xxx

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Wow really?

 

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DishSubLA

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Apr 9, 2006

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• Feb 1, 2010

• #14

OP: You are thinking of it as if it were in an analog world; digital has been around for a very long time. One digital stream; as many map-downs to as many channels as need be. Or, to explain it in a analog sense: all the mapped-down channels "tune" the very same--the one and only--transponder with the digital stream (for that arc) that is HD Theater.