I live in Mishawaka, IN ( near South Bend-Northen Indiana). When I had Dish installed in DEC of 06 I received my locals in HD but as of about a month ago no longer. Does anybody know why that would be. Dish can't give me a good answer. It's really annoying. Thanks for any info.
Locals in HD, Here Today Gone Tommorrow
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South Bend locals have never been HD on dish. You would have to use an OTA antenna to receive them.
What color where they in the guide? All OTA show up as yellow.
What color where they in the guide? All OTA show up as yellow.
Ain't it the truth: in fact, our locals on Dish are about as un-HD as you can possibly get... at best they are SSD (Sub-Standard Definition).
Are you sure nothing went wrong with your antenna? Can you tune OTA locals on your TV?
If you're sure your antenna is OK, can you see the yellow channels in the program guide? Are they all zero signal strength?
If no yellow channels, have you tried rescanning for locals?
If you're sure your antenna is OK, can you see the yellow channels in the program guide? Are they all zero signal strength?
If no yellow channels, have you tried rescanning for locals?
I normally get CBS, NBC, Fox, WHME, WNIT and there might be a few others in HD. I get them from the OTA Antenna that dish installed. I'm having someone out soon to install a DVR so I could get them to look at but in the meantime I'm annoyed.
Ah! So you get them by OTA. Okay, that's not really a Dish problem even though an installer might have setup the antenna for you.
Now we need to determine what Dish receiver you are using to direct you on how to rescan for your local channels received by OTA.
What receiver is yours?
First, if the 211 is similar to the 622, Press MENU, 6, 7 to get the HDTV Setup screen and make sure the input(ANALOG TYPE) is set to OFF AIR. If it was something else, change it and check your channels again.
If it was already OFF AIR, go back out of the Menu and follow this procedure:
1 - Make sure you have your off-air antenna connected to the receiver’s 8VSB TV Antenna/Cable connection.
2 - Press MENU, select System Setup ( 6), and then Local Channels ( 8) to open the Local Channels screen.
If this is the first time you have opened this screen, it will have no channels listed.
3 - Scan for channels by selecting Scan Locals.
4 - The scan will take a few minutes to complete. When it finishes, the results will show how many channels the scan found.
5 - Select OK to go back to the Local Channels screen.
Note: If the channel number says None, you have not yet assigned this channel a network affiliation or name. The Arrow at the bottom left means that there are more channels, off the bottom of the screen, which you can get to with the ARROW keys if you wish to edit their names or remove them.
6 - If you want to name the off-air channels, continue on. If you do not want to name your off-air channels, select Done.
You will then be taken out of the menus back to watching TV.
7 - Select a channel and then select Edit Name to modify the way the channel name displays on your screen.
8 - Use the virtual keyboard on the screen to select the letters of your channel name.
9 - When you are finished making changes, select Done.
If it was already OFF AIR, go back out of the Menu and follow this procedure:
1 - Make sure you have your off-air antenna connected to the receiver’s 8VSB TV Antenna/Cable connection.
2 - Press MENU, select System Setup ( 6), and then Local Channels ( 8) to open the Local Channels screen.
If this is the first time you have opened this screen, it will have no channels listed.
3 - Scan for channels by selecting Scan Locals.
4 - The scan will take a few minutes to complete. When it finishes, the results will show how many channels the scan found.
5 - Select OK to go back to the Local Channels screen.
Note: If the channel number says None, you have not yet assigned this channel a network affiliation or name. The Arrow at the bottom left means that there are more channels, off the bottom of the screen, which you can get to with the ARROW keys if you wish to edit their names or remove them.
6 - If you want to name the off-air channels, continue on. If you do not want to name your off-air channels, select Done.
You will then be taken out of the menus back to watching TV.
7 - Select a channel and then select Edit Name to modify the way the channel name displays on your screen.
8 - Use the virtual keyboard on the screen to select the letters of your channel name.
9 - When you are finished making changes, select Done.
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Thanks for the help, as soon as I get home from work I will try this. i'll let you know how it goes.
When I went home, I looked and the input was set to off-air so I was thinking there was no hope but I scanned locals and found the hd versions of them all (including CW and ABC that I didn't even have before). I must have messed something up a month ago to lose them. Thanks so much for your help.
