This is a very similar issue to the one in the thread Coolsat 5000 Can't receive CW on G11 but the fix proposed there doesn't work because you cannot edit the frequency or symbol rate of an existing channel, only the name and the PIDS (why, oh why would they not allow you to edit the frequency or symbol rate?!?). There is a way to do a manual scan and even to enter PIDS manually, but (as with the Coolsat) it seems that a manual scan just won't pick up those channels. If I could export my existing channel list via the USB port (what idiot never considered that anyone might want to do that?!?) I could try editing them in manually via the channel editor but I don't really want to lose all the other channels I've scanned and entered.
Thanks to stogie5150's help I am now able to receive the NBC HD feeds, but the aspect ratio isn't right - it's compressing a widescreen picture into a 4x3 aspect ratio (so everyone looks very thin) and no combination of button presses seems to have any effect. I'm feeding the signal into a standard definition (analog) TV using the video and audio outputs, but the other HD signals I've found are properly letterboxed with dark bands top and bottom (as are terrestrial HDTV signals). The NBC feeds are the only ones that exhibit the strange property of filling the screen both vertically AND horizontally, but compressing the picture horizontally. The desire to get the NBC feeds was one of the main reasons I wanted one of these so I hope someone can tell me how to fix this issue (buying a HDTV set isn't an option right now, and I'm not sure that would fix the problem anyway... I suspect it would show a 4x3 compressed picture with black vertical sidebars on a widescreen HDTV set!).
At least the PVR seems to work, however it seems a bit limited in functionality... I tried to play something I recorded last night and when I tried to skip a part of the previous show (which ran over a bit) the sound did this strange skipping where it dropped out for about half a second every few seconds (as if the sound was playing a bit faster than the video, then it had to stop and let the video catch up). When I stopped playback and started from the beginning then it played fine. I have to experiment with this some more but there is only so much one can do in one evening and I was up WAAAAY too late messing with this thing as it was.
Oh, and it DOES seem to convert AC3 audio internally and send it out the stereo audio outputs, so that's a plus also. If I could resolve the issues with the CW and the NBC-HD feeds I'd be very happy. If I could find some way to export the channel list from the receiver to the USB stick, I'd be ecstatic!
Thanks to stogie5150's help I am now able to receive the NBC HD feeds, but the aspect ratio isn't right - it's compressing a widescreen picture into a 4x3 aspect ratio (so everyone looks very thin) and no combination of button presses seems to have any effect. I'm feeding the signal into a standard definition (analog) TV using the video and audio outputs, but the other HD signals I've found are properly letterboxed with dark bands top and bottom (as are terrestrial HDTV signals). The NBC feeds are the only ones that exhibit the strange property of filling the screen both vertically AND horizontally, but compressing the picture horizontally. The desire to get the NBC feeds was one of the main reasons I wanted one of these so I hope someone can tell me how to fix this issue (buying a HDTV set isn't an option right now, and I'm not sure that would fix the problem anyway... I suspect it would show a 4x3 compressed picture with black vertical sidebars on a widescreen HDTV set!).
At least the PVR seems to work, however it seems a bit limited in functionality... I tried to play something I recorded last night and when I tried to skip a part of the previous show (which ran over a bit) the sound did this strange skipping where it dropped out for about half a second every few seconds (as if the sound was playing a bit faster than the video, then it had to stop and let the video catch up). When I stopped playback and started from the beginning then it played fine. I have to experiment with this some more but there is only so much one can do in one evening and I was up WAAAAY too late messing with this thing as it was.
Oh, and it DOES seem to convert AC3 audio internally and send it out the stereo audio outputs, so that's a plus also. If I could resolve the issues with the CW and the NBC-HD feeds I'd be very happy. If I could find some way to export the channel list from the receiver to the USB stick, I'd be ecstatic!
