[BC] Call Letters

[Craig Bowman]

You are absolutely correct about the scan with some TV's but others can 
use direct input of the channel 2-1 and it will find it.  Some will 
remember it and others will not find it at all without a scan.  I have 
two Sony TV in my offices in Orlando.  I just put up a .2 channel and 
one of the sony's allowed me to enter the channel from the remote 
control and it was then in my "scan" insomuch as I could now up and down 
channel and stop on the new channel.  The other Sony displayed "No 
Signal" when directly entering from the remote control and had to be 
re-scanned to display it.  It truly is a joke.

Craig Bowman

Cowboy wrote:
> On Monday 02 March 2009 11:17 am, Craig Bowman wrote:
>   
>>  That is not the way it works. The PSIP tells the TV which channel to 
>>  display the video on.  You can be transmitting on Channel 42 but the TV 
>>  displays you on 4.1
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>   
>>  Cowboy wrote:
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>   
>>  >  "Mom, what channel is channel 4 ?"
>>  >  "I think channel 4 is on channel 13, or 31, or maybe channel 17 ?"
>>  >  "So, what channel is channel 17 ?"
>>     
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>  While that part is correct, unless it's already programmed in, you
>  can't find it, as there seems to be an extreme dependence on a 
>  "scan" finding all possible channels, which just isn't real world.
>
>  Some sets allow adding "a" channel, some require a full rescan,
>  so if you need to change antenna direction for one or two,
>  ( like my brother ) you lose them all, and can't fix it.
>
>  It's STILL silly.
>
>  Worse, in your example, if I wish to know what channel is channel 4,
>  the digital sets won't tell me, without jumping through considerable hoops.
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