OTA Lineup - Too Many Channels?

[TydalForce]

I don't know if anyone else has come across this, but I've found my lineup of digital OTA channels to be a little too generous.

I live just outside Philadelphia. Plenty of local Philly stations to go around. I hooked up a strange cobbling-together of wires to get some OTA channels while I wait for a real antenna, and ran Guided Setup.

Well, TiVo seems to think I've got NASA-grade equipment hooked up here, as it gave me too many stations! It seems to think I can reach stations from Harrisburg (95 miles) and New York (100 miles).

Now, I can go into Channel Setup and un-select them just fine. But that's a bit of a pain. Then I hit the online scheduling site on the web, and it has ALL of them listed. I wish it would let me clear them out entirely...

Anybody else getting more channels than they can get?

[jdr5]

Imagine you put up an uber antenna on a 50 foot pole to pull in those stations. Now imagine that the Tivo did not include guide data. Then you would be frustrated and calling Tivo all sorts of names for not supporting all the stations that you could receive.

It took me quite a while to uncheck all the HD OTA channels that I couldn't get or where in languages I don't speak. But I'd rather have too many than too few.

[Bierboy]

This is a common situation. I had it with the Sony DHG unit I had for a few months last year, and I also had it when I set up my S3. As Jim says, I'd much rather have too many that too few.

[TydalForce]

I wonder if that could even work.... lol

Actually, I think the point of this is not that I'm offered too many stations, but rather that the Channel List screen needs more flexibility now.

I essentially have 3 channel sources:
- analogue cable
- analogue antenna
- digital antenna
and if I had cablecards, I would have digital cable too

So now I'm looking at a list that has 3 listings for Channel 2, plus 2.1 digital broadcast. I have 4.1 4.2 4.3 for WABC in New York. I have Fox 43 out of York PA.

- I want to keep all the cable channels, and unselect all the analogue antenna channels. A filter for this would be great
- I want to go through the list of digital broadcast channels quickly, and remove the ones I know I can't get
But I just have a huge list of everything.

Even the ones I de-select from this list, still show up on the Online Scheduling page.

[Bierboy]

That's one of the features being requested of TIVo is to customize the online schedule. It can be annoying, but I still like being able to schedule online.

But, back to the channel setup on the TiVo -- for me, a filter wouldn't work. I want all my analog cable stations EXCEPT the local ones I can pick up OTA HD. There's no need for me to receive my CBS station on the analog cable when I can get it OTA HD. So I would be manually deleting some channels anyhow. And, really, it's only a one-time setup (unless, for some reason, you have to go through guided setup again), so it's not something you're doing a lot.

[TydalForce]

Let me rephrase my filter idea - I didn't make it clear.

The filter would just be when viewing the Channel List. (and maybe to select / deselect large chunks).

Say you're looking at a list of channels that are OTA-analogue, OTA-digital, Cable-analogue, Cable-digital. You'd have oodles of stations listed. You could "show only OTA-analogue' and not accidentally get them confused with your other inputs. The filter would just be for focusing in on a certain set of channels, and wouldn't select/deselect anything.

For example - I've got channel 2 listed 3 times: one is on Cable, the other two are Ant. I was worried that I'd get click-happy and un-select the Cable one (which I want) when unselecting the other two (which I don't even receive).

A "Select All / Deselect All" would be handy too. I didn't hook up the antenna for OTA-analogue, so the ability to just say "get rid of all these" would be super convenient.

[phox_mulder]

TiVo seems to think I can get stations from over 500 miles away, with just an antenna.

I live in Salt Lake City.
TiVo thinks I can get stations from Idaho Falls Idaho, Grand Junction Colorado, and somewhere in Nevada.
Look at a map, there is no way TV signals could travel that far, not to mention through solid granite.

I keep removing these channels from "Channels I Recieve" and they keep coming back because I do have a channel 4, 5 and 13, just not those 4, 5 and 13's, not to mention the 30+ "low power" UHF channels.


phox