Re: How will the US local area stations commerate the end of System-M?

In article <eIySj.7677$DG.1946@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Sal M. Onella" <salmonella@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Funny, the Samsung finds two PBS subchannels that are blank - no A/V -
and
> the Magnavox doesn't.  No idea what's up with that.

Do they show a different main channel number?

On the PBS here in Austin, two subchannels popped up recently on -5 and 
-6, without PSIP channel reassignment (22-x instead of the renumbered 
18-x). (They used to have subchannels on -3 and -4, but did away with 
those over a year ago.) My old Panasonic tuner picked them up right 
away, and even picked up both disappearing the other day, followed by -5 
re-appearing. (They also used to have a blank -7 a few years ago, but I 
deleted it and it didn't come back.)

My two other tuners, a DirecTV receiver with no dish, and a Sylvania, 
won't tune the -5 or -6 by manually punching in the channel number, and 
I don't want to do a rescan. So apparently some tuners are smarter than 
others about mixed PSIP channel numbers, as well as subchannels 
appearing and disappearing.