Channel Count

[Diamond Jim]

I've been reading with great interest about the channel count before and after the converison. I am assuming that they are getting that number from option 6-5, channel window. I had 5821 before the converison and 5821 after the converison. I have subscribed to one channel to see if the converison worked, it did. All of my generics are working fine. Would someone please explain to me what this number means?

 

[Corrado]

I just converted my 922. I waited it out the for January and used a 410. My channel count didn't change, it is 4782.

The only differences seem to be the SRL logo on top of the guide and if I go off satellite X4, the receiver has a delayed reaction to the remote.

 

[Diamond Jim]

I just converted my 922. I waited it out the for January and used a 410. My channel count didn't change, it is 4782.

The only differences seem to be the SRL logo on top of the guide and if I go off satellite X4, the receiver has a delayed reaction to the remote.

My remote works fine on any satellite, the clock gets off if I'm gone from X4 any length of time. It resets as soon as I go back.

 

[ZetaMale]

I have a lot of trouble with the IPG. It's worse than when Motorola was running it. I usually get "No info" on all channels everytime I access the guide when I first turn on the receiver every day and it takes an enormous amount of time to list the programs - sometimes more than an hour. It's greatly lacking in program info, also.

 

[Diamond Jim]

Johnny, I found if you leave it on X4 all night (power on or off if you want) the guide will be there in the morning. My guide is not accurate. I ony subbed to ESPN Classic just to see if the conversion took, it did, but the guide has never been right.

 

[tvropro]

Since the guide trickles instead of dumps the only way to be fully accurate is to stay on X4 100% of the time. Mine gets all messed up too and my programming info is missing mostly. If I do a flush in diag F and let it sit on X4 3-4 hours it usually gets the info right for that day, but soon as I leave its back to screw up city. There is nothing we can do about it unless we sit in the network stream all the time. It is what it is... I use my DirecTV guide to see whats what most of the time now.

 

[Corrado]

Until now my 922 has never had the guide because it's been fixed on 105W since H2H went C band a few years ago, so it's new to me in that respect. It's better than what I had.

I had the W5 tile still programmed in after the conversion and found if I switched to it the receiver didn't like it at all and would even lock up, the generics still function as before. I just took W5 out the other day.