Does Dish support SAP?

[sam_gordon]

The title says it all. Do Dish receivers have the capability of pushing out SAP (secondary audio programming for those of you who don't know)?

And just to let you know what's coming down the pike, starting in May, local broadcasters will be mandated to include audio for all emergency information on the screen. That audio will need to go out the SAP channel.

As far as what qualifies as "emergency"... weather crawls, school closings, crawls about interstate shutdowns, evacuations, etc.

If there is 'emergency' information on the screen, the regular audio needs to be interrupted telling viewers there is more information on the SAP channel.

Don't kill the messenger.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yes it does. Go into your audio setting.

 

[GaryPen]

I'm not sure it' implemented properly, though, at least on the one channel I use it.

On TV Japan, if you set alternate audio to Japanese, you can hear the English audio (if available). When English is chosen, you hear Japanese audio.

I haven't checked lately, though. But, it was always that way with VIP and older receivers, as well as with my Hopper last time I checked.

 

[Tampa8]

That is the way it still works on the VIP receivers for TV Japan. What do you mean by not implemented properly? It should be chosen the other way around?

Our local channels in Ct. constantly have "Emergency" information scrolling, literally sometimes all day and night. Far far more than the Tampa channels do.
I wonder what is meant by an interruption telling people there is a sap channel they can turn to.....

 

[ChadT41]

For the OP

Menu>settings> audio> alternate audio> whichever language you want> save.

 

[GaryPen]

That is the way it still works on the VIP receivers for TV Japan. What do you mean by not implemented properly? It should be chosen the other way around?

Don't you think that "English" should enable English, and "Japanese" should enable Japanese? Or, am I being too picky?

 

[Tampa8]

As it is now you have to pick (and know) what the language is to hear it in the English SAP, if it was reversed as you say you just would pick English. When EuroNews had a portuguese SAP it worked the same way. (You picked "Alternate")

 

[sam_gordon]

Don't you think that "English" should enable English, and "Japanese" should enable Japanese? Or, am I being too picky?

Just guessing, but I think alternative audio channels are actually identified in the stream as numbers, with English being the first. So even though you're selecting 'English', the receiver is looking for the first alternate audio channel.

Maybe?

 

[GaryPen]

Just guessing, but I think alternative audio channels are actually identified in the stream as numbers, with English being the first. So even though you're selecting 'English', the receiver is looking for the first alternate audio channel.

Maybe?

Yes. After seeing the backwards way it worked with a foreign channel, assumed that English just means "Main Audio".
What I still find weird is choosing Japanese brings up the English SAP.

 

[GaryPen]

As it is now you have to pick (and know) what the language is to hear it in the English SAP, if it was reversed as you say you just would pick English.

But, that is reversed. (From intuitive, common sense, anyway.)

Picking English to hear English, would be the opposite of reversed.

 

[sam_gordon]

Yes. After seeing the backwards way it worked with a foreign channel, assumed that English just means "Main Audio".
What I still find weird is choosing Japanese brings up the English SAP.

Here's what I'm thinking...

They have two audio streams... one with Japanese language and one with English. The Japanese language is the primary feed and the English is the secondary.

Your tuner calls ALL primary feeds 'English' and all secondary feeds are something else. So you hear Japanese when you select English.

IIRC, broadcasters encoders can be programmed with the 'name' of the audio (English, Spanish, Japanese, etc). So maybe the broadcaster calls their secondary Japanese (or their primary Japanese and the secondary English, but your tuner isn't reading the description).

This all makes sense in my head, I just can't write it down well.

 

[Tampa8]

But, that is reversed. (From intuitive, common sense, anyway.)

Picking English to hear English, would be the opposite of reversed.

Yep, I'm agreeing with you...