Originally Posted By: Vikas
Originally Posted By: eljefino
Are people really this thick?
"Where'd it go? It must be gone!"
Computers are smart, you just have to give them the "go" button.
Hold on a second here! Since you think you are a genius, please tell me why OTA channel rescan takes hours on a typical tuner? Also since the station already advertised that they are moving to channel (e.g.) 12.234 why doesn't a tuner allow me to enter that number directly rather than it having to re-scan and taking hours to do it. AND then I have to spend more hours to delete all the junk channels that it finds?
See, you just got me started on this and it is all your fault!!
Seriously, that whole design seems to have been made with the sole purpose of driving me nuts.
I'll preface this by saying I worked in tv 17 years and am happy to be out!
Stations used to brand themselves by their channel. Cable came along and channels 2-13 pretty much stayed in their spots on cable, barring fisticuffs between the station management and cable. So that didn't matter.
Then cable started moving stations around so we got branding like (City of license's)NBC so people wouldn't get hung up on a channel.
ATSC was on the horizon so included in the spec was a virtual channel. Even worse there were two transmitters operating simultaneously for the transition time. One could be on the frequency channel 43 and the other on analog 51. When you'd engage a tv to scan it would look for an analog signal then a digital one in the same space. For branding purposes ATSC lets one give a virtual channel number to that 43 frequency so you could call it 51-1, 51-2 etc. When there were still analog signals I'd channel-up and hit 51 then 51.1, 51.2.
I would only assume when the tv slows down it's on a marginal frequency where there could be something but it's not really sure. At least I see mine struggle.
The junk channels pay bills. One transmitter just got sold in my market and how has six Ion subchannels, 3 of which are shopping. They suck! It's like you have to hang a mailbox to get your tax return but there's all sorts of junk mail that comes along for the ride.