Will Local OTA Schedule Show in Program Guide?

[hemway]

Once E* gets it's act together and makes all the software fixes they need to make to the program guide to get it to work right (2 days of informaion instead of 2 hours, get the preview window working when you bring up the guide, not 30 seconds later, just to name a few), will the guide display the local OTA programming schedules on it? Some time ago, in one of these forums, I thought I read that it would, but in other's, I read that it wouldn't. I also read that it would in cities where it re-transmittes the locals it would.

Does anyone know if E* has plans to display the local OTA schedules on the electronic guide?

 

[hancox]

Even if this does make it into the 811, it would be dependant on the broadcaster actually sending out programming details. Doubtful at best

 

[hemway]

I'm in the Phoenix area and up until I got my 811, I subscribed to my locals from E*.

If and when E* gets the mapping of the local OTA digital and analog channels fixed on the 811, I would think that they could do a simple compare (sorry but my old programming days are coming out again) to see if the channels the customer has added to the receiver match the local re-mapped channels in their electronic guide, then display that information. Most of the other receivers already do the re-mapping of the locals in the guide, so it should only take a little more code to match those channels with the one's added to the receiver by the customer/user.

Once again, this will only work on receivers that are in areas where E* re-broadcasts the locals.

As for the locals adding their shceduling information to their digital signal, wasn't that part of the digital broadcasting requirements that the FCC made?

 

[Outback Paul]

I just got my 510 receiver and I can just barely see what's coming on for the next hour. There's nothing in there beyond 2 hours on my locals and the 94xx series channels. I called Dish Network yesterday and they said that it downloads during the night and I'd have to turn off the receiver. Well I was recording stuff during the night so I couldn't turn it off. Besides, that didn't make any sense to me. Does all of this sound right?

Paul

 

[Peter Parker]

You can turn it off and it will turn itself on at the scheduled recording time.

 

[Outback Paul]

Yeah I know but it was recording something when I went to bed.

 

[John Kotches]

If they'd allow us to define a network affiliation to an HD station, then they could (in theory) map back the Locals schedule from the guide to the HD channel.

It's just a thought, and whether that would work in practice is another matter altogether.

Cheers,