Lost single OTA channel HR10-250

[newsposter]

Isolated incident or signs of failing tuner?

Turned to 6-1 philly abc and said no signal (ditto 6-2 6-3). Meter said 85 strength. All the other OTA channels came in fine and had great signals. Of course rebooted as first line of defense and waited for the painful time out since I can't get 119. Had a grey screen which did nothing. Rebooted again. Now everything is working fine.

One other note, the channel is on 64 uhf. When I first went to check the signal, channel 64 said 64-3 on the signal meter. I can't swear to it, but I'm pretty sure that when it's functioning correctly that it doesn't say 64-3 on the signal meter. So did that mean anything either?

edit: it does say only 6-1 HD on the meter now, weird to see 64-3 on there

[KSbugeater]

Check the AVS Forum Local Reception thread for Philly to see if anyone else had probs. with that channel. They may have had a PSIP problem.

[newsposter]

thx. what's PSIP? :)

[phox_mulder]

thx. what's PSIP? :)

Not sure what the acronym is, but it's basically what makes HDTV work.
It assigns the Video and Audio to the correct portion of the channel,
tells HD recievers what channel it is tuned to (6-1),
splits the HD channel into the subchannels (6-2, 6-3, etc),
allocates how much bandwidth for each subchannel,
and puts the program guide in.

Fer instance, here in SLC, CBS is channel 2.
HD it's on channel 36.
If you tune to it with an HD TV you see channel 2-1.
We don't currently have a subchannel, so we are full bandwidth 1080i HD Digital :up: .

In the beginning of HDTV, we were constantly having to change settings, then we'd have viewers call in saying they couldn't see us, so we would tell them to rescan the channels, it's the general fix for PSIP problems.


phox