ota seemless intergration

[cheezehead]

I not really up on the whole HDTV yet cause here in Wichita Ks it is not really big. In fact i do not know anyone with High def yet but they are available locally. I have a HD ready TV with a 501 currently into an Onkyo 797 reciever.

I will be buying a 811 or 921 since they will do local and sat in one nice neat box. The local dish guy talked about seemless ota sat tv integration but could not explain it or show it to me.

What is this.

[boba]

If channel 3 is broadcasting in HD in your area selecting 003 on the DISH remote should bring up the channel 3 HD broadcast. Selecting 9443 will bring up the DISH HDTV demo channel. Just by selecting the channel the receiver delivers either your over the air or satellite delivered HDTV channel. I assume this is what was meant.

[cheezehead]

If channel 3 is broadcasting in HD in your area selecting 003 on the DISH remote should bring up the channel 3 HD broadcast. Selecting 9443 will bring up the DISH HDTV demo channel. Just by selecting the channel the receiver delivers either your over the air or satellite delivered HDTV channel. I assume this is what was meant.


I believe this is what my local E* dealer was refering to. So let me try to understand what your saying. Locally channel 10 has HDTV available. So for Monday night football I can watch it in HD with a local reciever. With the Dish 811 or 6000 I would turn my box not my TV to channel 10. That sounds wonderful. Currently I do not have a local HD box yet. Waiting for a 921. I have to turn my tv to channel 10. My wife hates changing between sat and ant and all the different audio positions on the reciever. I would love to see this work. What happens during the no prime time hours when HD is not broadcast. Do you then have to tune the TV to channel 10.

[DarrellP]

Tuning to channel 10 on a Dish HD box will get you the Analog channel. Most HD channels are actually UHF, so your digital channel 10 may actually be channel 47. What the HD receiver does is this: You go into the setup menu and type in your local digital channel #, say, 47, the 6000 tunes to 47, reads the PSIP data stream and sees that the "Parent" channel is VHF 10, so it creates a sub-channel for however many channels your station is broadcasting digitally. Typically, the station is still broadcasting Analog on Ch 10, then the digital will come out as 10-01, 10-02, etc. When you assign a local network affiliate, say NBC to the Analog channel 10, then during Primetime you can see what is on Ch 10 by looking at the guide. This is how OTA is integrated with the HD receiver. I've noticed that even off Primetime, I can still get channel Info, but it does not show a name for the program and sometimes the info is not correct.

Hope that helped.