NightRyder said:
Yes it stinks, but I've said since the beginning of this mess that the FCC should use the old analog white areas as a starting point for digital, of course I live in a genuine analog white area so in my case it works (even if it didn't, my local ABC, CBS NBC and Fox have already agreed to grant me digital waivers
) . My sincere sympathy to all of you caught in the NAB's digital hell.
NightRyder
And you were right but the big question is will Dish use it ?
This method has never (per FCC fact sheet) gone away. But dispite Congress's stipulation in SHVERA that the FCC investigate and possibly come up with a more appropiate digital prediction model by this December, they (the FCC) just announced this past week that the old analog method is apparently "good enough" for digital too. It's a provable fact that the Longely Rice method is not accurate for my area and I suspect many others too. Besides, even if you can get a borderline analog signal, it has absolutly nothing to do with if you can receive (or if they even provide) a digital signal.
Anyway, as I understand from the many threads in the avs group, "D" wouldn't use any prediction model for qualifing their HD DNS at first and I'm still not sure if they do now. "D" was strictly O&O or waivers and nothing else.
"E" removed their dns qualification quite a while ago and I still couldn't find it today. Well it's kind of there but it really doesn't work - it just loops back that you qualify for LiLs.
I wish someone would jump in here and explain to us woodchucks just what Dish could legally do for HD DNS qualifing so we can compare it to what they decide to do.