HBO Free-view This weekend--Includes HD? and when starting?

[langlin]

12 Noon eastern and no HD, since they started the "new" free preview scheme on E* they no longer have HD, I think it is a technical issue with the new way of doing it because the HD was open before when they free previewed.

 

[Lurker]

Well, you likely setup the wrong channel anyway. The channels are not even in the EPG. How could you setup a recording when the channel does not exist?

JohnH, I can program Tivo to record any channel number, whether it exists or not. I did program it for the special preview channel numbers.

The problem occurs when it tunes my Dish receiver to a non-existent or unsubscribed channel. If the channel doesn't exist, it should be ok, since it will tune instead to the next-higher number that does exist. If the channel exists but is unsubscribed (or blacked out for sports), that is the real problem because the receiver will tune to that channel and then stop responding to channel changes, effectively being stuck on that channel until I manually unstick it (or the blackout ends).