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charlesrshell
06-04-09, 08:07 PM
Is anyone having trouble with OTA timer scheduling in "All" and "New" in the St Louis area? About a week ago ABC, CBS, and NBC OTA timers will no longer schedule events with the exception of the very first. Then, about 90% of the time it will not record. All my other OTA channels have no issues. This is happening on two 722s and a 722k. Problem has been reported to Dish engineering.
Drewg5
06-04-09, 08:49 PM
So far I have not had any problems OTA recording with my 722. Now the 211k is another story.
TubaSaxT
06-04-09, 09:24 PM
Is anyone having trouble with OTA timer scheduling in "All" and "New" in the St Louis area? About a week ago ABC, CBS, and NBC OTA timers will no longer schedule events with the exception of the very first. Then, about 90% of the time it will not record. All my other OTA channels have no issues. This is happening on two 722s and a 722k. Problem has been reported to Dish engineering.

I'm in St. Louis and have had this exact same problem. I'm even having issues recording "once." I wrote about it here:
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=154627&page=3

Here's the last email I received from tech support:
Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you for your email. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Thank you for providing the information for our engineering department. Unfortunately, we do not have a status report for this situation at this time. Generally these issues are resolved via software information sent directly to the receiver. Please remember to turn off your receiver when you are not watching TV, so that it can receive the update when it becomes available.

Sounds kind of like "We know there is a problem, we're just not allowed to tell you that."

There's been some speculation in that thread I linked that this problem is happening in markets where the locals moved from 118 to 129, which they just did here. Hopefully there's a fix coming soon.
Ron Barry
06-05-09, 12:09 AM
Yes please post in the thread that TubaSaxT posted as this issue is already being discussed. Closing thread to avoid duplicate threads.