OTA HD without subscription to satellite HD ?

[snathanb]

This is a very bad decision.

Last night, I had extremely severe weather, with rain thick enough to cause loss of signal.

This rendered me unable to watch even locals, and get timely weather updates.

Bad, bad, bad.

Cheers,

John, I was able to watch OTA last night during bad weather... even with my satellite dish disconnected from the 811.. I'm pasting the post I made last night below....

Recent threads have discussed using the 811 OTA tuner without being subscribed or during periods of satellite outages due to weather.

We had severe thunderstorms tonight in DFW, so I did some experimenting.

I had complete loss of signal for several minutes...

1) Hit menu
2) Select Program Guide
3) Select OTA channel
4) "Searching for satellite message" screen came up
5) Hit menu
6) Hit Program Guide
7) you should now see your digital channel playing in the upper right corner (if you have picture in guide selected)
8) reselect the channel from the program guide
9) watch digital TV, use browse functions to switch between digital stations

I was able to reproduce this several times *with the satellite cable completely removed from the back of the 811*.

 

[John Kotches]

I saw your post, after I posted mine.

Cheers,