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lfl4 @ 8th Feb 07:54AM:
Re: [HDTV] New HD Channels

I'm hoping someone else can verify or explain. Back in early January, PatMed came out to the house and did work to clean up our signal. Right after that, the tuner in my DVD/VCR deck found lots of digital channels:

CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC and NJN up at 103-1. It also found 13HD at 101-5 and all the music channels at 100-xx. The 13HD signal has been getting bad until now there is no signal at all. Coincidentally, all the music channels are gone too. Calling PatMed was pointless - the two reps I talked to didn't even know about subs. (One tried to tell me that I was getting this all through the air! Music Now???) Has anyone else had a similar experience>
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anon @ 14th Feb 10:14AM:
Re: [HDTV] New HD Channels

said by lfl4 :

I'm hoping someone else can verify or explain. Back in early January, PatMed came out to the house and did work to clean up our signal. Right after that, the tuner in my DVD/VCR deck found lots of digital channels:

CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC and NJN up at 103-1. It also found 13HD at 101-5 and all the music channels at 100-xx. The 13HD signal has been getting bad until now there is no signal at all. Coincidentally, all the music channels are gone too. Calling PatMed was pointless - the two reps I talked to didn't even know about subs. (One tried to tell me that I was getting this all through the air! Music Now???) Has anyone else had a similar experience>

I think Patriot likes to move these digital channels around periodically to encourage us to rent more cable boxes and DVRs. They won't admit you can watch digital using a QAM tuner (like your VCR apparently has). So that may be what happened to you. Or your signal got weak only in the frequencies used by the digital channels. Try rescanning for channels or try manually tuning to 4.1, 7.1, etc. If that doesn't work, find a static-filled analog channel to complain about. You can hope when they improve the analog signal your digital signal will also be improved.
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lfl4 @ 14th Feb 10:34AM:
Re: [HDTV] New HD Channels

Thanks - I appreciate the response and you pretty much confirmed my suspicions. I broke down and ordered the HD box because I just couldn't see trying an antenna in this area and getting spotty results. (We're in the red to violet area.) As it turned out, when the kid came by we finagled every possible hookup and, without an amp, my DVD/VCR deck couldn't latch onto the stations. (I'm thinking that the nice clean feed I was getting may have been compromised a bit with the recent storms.) I've got a splitter that's going into the HD box and an amp into the deck. Now the deck is picking up those stations again so, it seems that I could have just put the amp on myself and passed on the HD DVR but the stations are more reliable from it so... Yep - they just wear you down! But, hey, I got to see the Beagle win in HD - ;-)
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efnjim @ 6th Mar 08:53PM:
Re: [HDTV] New HD Channels

Has anyone figured out the new channels assignments for the HD channels? These b*st*rds changed it again and it is driving my poor ol Dad batty! Thanks for any assist.
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