Re: Ghosting on UPN from Directv

Greywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> D* locals have a 2 letter designation for your city followed by the channel
> number. My UPN D* local in Chicago is CH50 for example. Digital OTA channels
> appear as stated above and mine is 50-1. Analog OTA channels have the
> station call letters and no hyphen or dot like mine is 50 WPWR..

Is the "50-1" a titantv thing, or is that also on the DirecTV-HDTV guide?

I thought that DirecTV didn't provide any HDTV locals.
Channel 44-SF provides over-the-air HDTV signal on channel 45 (noted as
44-1 in titantv).

Another factor is how DirecTV receives the analog signal from the
local station.  Do they receive it over the air at some head end, or is
brought to them directly, possibly digitally?  Channel 44-SF via DirecTV
looks fine to me.  There are definitely some locals that are not good,
although I think I've dropped them from my channel lists for lack of
interest as well as picture quality.  I get nothing OTA.

>> But all my other channles are fine and I know that D* carries
>> this channel.  So the question then becomes, can the OTA signal
>> mess up the D* signal?

In his initial setup, would it have been possible for him to add the
over-the-air analog 44 to the Advanced Guide (which would be a bad thing)?
I can perceive channel 44 being on his list three times, as DirecTV analog,
OTA-analog (probably useless), and OTA-HDTV.
Can the HDTV signal get ghosting and such from a poor, perhaps fluctuating,
signal, or is such garbage limited to analog?

If it can only be analog, then he must hav eht OTA instead of the DirecTV
version of channel 44 in his guide.  Maybe he's skipped the OTA-HDTV
version of channel 44.


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