103CB Signals Dead

Thanks to fellow Pennsylvanian KyL416 for keeping us all updated. Hope you're catching up on some sleep today

 

Only 4 channel not back on yet they are: 353 Bloomberg HD/410 NBC Universo/455 Univision Deportes and 458 TWC Sportsnet Deportes. All 4 of the channel still have the NO NEED TO CALL US Slide.

 

Can someone explain to me why it's necessary to simulcast HD and SD? Can't the STB just downconvert the HD version to a SD monitor? Seems like a huge waste of sat capacity, but I guess they would have already done it, if it were possible.

 

All the old receivers in circulation prevent it.

 

I figured so. That's too bad. What a waste of resources.

Thanks for the reply.

 

I'm at work so can't check this out myself, but are the receivers sent some sort of remapping instructions so that if you tune to the old channel number it still comes in? Or does my wife have to redo her scheduled recordings?

 

It should remap transparently to the user. The channel numbers will remain the same. Only the internal "pointers" that tell the receiver what frequencies to tune to are changing.

 

Part of D14's purpose has always been to allow for channels to transition off DIRECTV10. That satellite had problems even before it went operational and it's always been the plan to allow it to retire. As stated, DIRECTV14 has more capacity than DIRECTV10 has (had?) and there's no reason to think this will slow DIRECTV's plans.

 

For ten minutes Destination America HD ch 286 was frozen on this image, which was pretty funny. Does anyone think Destination America will freeze again, should I DVR a a show I want to watch in SD just in case?

 

On the lighter side -

As all this was going on last night, I received a call from DTV. I thought, "Wow! Now THIS is some customer service! Are they seriously calling me to let me know of the outage???"

After all, I had never received a call in over 14 years of being a subscriber.

Nope - sales call. Thought it was too good to be true! !rolling

 

Wow--looks like we picked the right night (Thursday evening) to watch content on the Apple TV. Had no idea any of this was happening until I saw the "Sorry about missing HD channels" email from DirecTV this morning.

While I had issues in recent weeks with several channels (H2 HD, IFC HD, Cooking HD) giving me the 771 error, things seemed to fix themselves in the last week or so…then this happened, and I see IFC HD on the list (though it's probably back now, from what I've read).

I have to wonder if the issues I was having were the beginning signs of something going wrong like it did this past week.

 

If you have a slimline 3 dish you don't get NBC Universo sd or TWC Deportes sd correct? We only get them in HD which are both currently down.

 

Hmmm....guess they didn't send the email to everyone? I didn't receive anything.

 

I received a email from DIRECTV at 04:11 this morning informing me of the "Technical Issues".

 

I didn't get an e-mail; and I have access to DirecTV's website.

A note for some consumers: With however much of the programming having now returned, it may be necessary to do a reset of one's receiver. (I had to do so with one of my DVRs.)

 

When I look in the satellite setup menu I don't see 99ca, only 99c which I'm guessing is D11. Does DTV need to reprogram the receivers to show D14 in the setup menu?

Steve

 

Putting a satellite with Ku capacity at a Ka slot doesn't seem like a long-term solution when all of the oldest satellites are Ku. Then again, having a satellite that covers three bands and no spot beams is spreading things awfully thin.

 

For the receiver to show 99ca and 99cb an update is needed. Until that update happens the receiver is just combining the two on the 99c screen

 

It is my understanding that the receiver will find the channels, even though you cannot see a signal strength screen for 99ca and 99cb. There is no need to seen the signal strength screen to be able to receive any of the channels from D14.