EPG Duplicate Channels, Different SIDs

[red hazard]

For quite some time now I have been getting duplicate channels on my 622 in the EPG. I have the AEP plus HD. Duplicate channels are in red (unaccessible) and and some examples are:
873 Boom (175)
886 NTGEO (886)
890 AMC (130)
898 TMCW (330)
and about 19 more. The numbers in parenthesis are the normal channels.

How do I fix this and what is the problem?

 

[RandallA]

Those are just the channels for the Dish Latino Max package. If you don't want to see them, press guide for the "All Sub" channels guide.

 

[cj9788]

Those are just the channels for the Dish Latino Max package. If you don't want to see them, press guide for the "All Sub" channels guide.

You can also lock and hide the duplicate ch's in the menu options. This will remove the dups so they will no longer show up in searches or the all chanel guide.

 

[KE4EST]

Yeah cause if you hit all sub some will still show up.

 

[red hazard]

Why do they need to identify a transmission channel with two different IDs to be in different packages? They don't do that with non-Hispanic channels do they? Like, what is the technical reason? TNX

 

[teamlazyboy]

my guess is that the channels are the spanish language channels so they have to split them from the english laguage channels

 

[red hazard]

:up

my guess is that the channels are the spanish language channels so they have to split them from the english laguage channels

That makes sense. Too bad they just couldn't use SAP that most TVs have.
I guess there are too many "El Cheapo" TVs that don't have SAP.

 

[Jim S.]

Alternate audio streams would be handled by the Dish receiver. SAP is part of the broadcast stereo specification, i.e. it only works over the TV's RF input.

Somewhere out there is a list of what Dish channels have alternate audio. The only time I've ever concerned myself with it is when someone broadcast The Dark Side Of The Moon as an alternate soundtrack to The Wizard Of Oz. (That was way back when I had my first-generation receiver, and there was considerable debate over whether Dish would carry it because they didn't carry alternate audio for much of anything at the time despite having the capability.)

 

[aperry]

Doesn't Closed Captioning work the same way? The only way to get CC displayed that I've found is to turn it on on my receiver. Hitting the TV's CC button does nothing.

 

[Jim S.]

I don't remember whether Dish sends CC data over the analog outputs or not, since I only have the digital output connected. You can send CC data over composite or s-video connections, VCRs do, but since the CC data on an analog channel is part of the video stream and Dish's video is not compressed losslessly, the receiver would have to generate an analog CC signal from the separate digital CC data it receives anyway and insert it into each frame of video, so I suspect they don't do that.