Microsoft Unprepared for Digital TV Switch

re: Microsoft Unprepared for Digital TV Switch

Anthony — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:26:30 GMT

Ha what to you mean STIIL? I get no KABC (ABC), no KCAL (Ch 9), no KTTV (Fox home base) and no what used to be UPN (Ch 13).

Unable to watch/record the IRL race on ABC in HD (OTA) unless this is fixed, I tried the XML trick, I don't wanna delete the whole file when other channels work.

Whatever... MS you hacks nevermind the Low Bit Rate error I have never seen before (Vista, XP)

re: Microsoft Unprepared for Digital TV Switch

Ralph Knox — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:53:13 GMT

This is still not fixed - evening of 6/17/09

thegreenbutton.com/.../369596.aspx

re: Microsoft Unprepared for Digital TV Switch

Funny — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:56:20 GMT

Wow, Microsoft is officially in the same DTV camp as Grandma's. I am reminded of that DTV conversion commercial of the elderly lady holding the DTV converter box up to her ear next to a jumble of cables.

All that brain power at Microsoft and they still can't figure out Media Center. Simply amazing.

re: Microsoft Unprepared for Digital TV Switch

MWB — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:15:24 GMT

Microsofts support here is dismal. Media center still doesn't have at least 2 major channels remapped. More important (for me) is that NONE of the secondary channels (minor channel numbers > 1) are in the M$ atscchannels database, and while it is pretty easy to add those manually, there is no way to find and map the channel listings properly, as those channels don't show up in the listings editors.

re: Microsoft Unprepared for Digital TV Switch

Ryan COnway — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:04:18 GMT

What's really sad is this was a known issue with stations that changed early. Take a look on Microsoft owned The Green Button and you will see quite a few posts, including one of mine.

re: Microsoft Unprepared for Digital TV Switch

PeterFnet — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:23:29 GMT

It is rather sad. There were similar problems after the 'first' round of switching.