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

On Sun, 04 May 2008 05:46:55 +0000, phil-news-nospam wrote:
> A proper TV would detect the PSIP data mismatch and alert the viewer and
> suggest the rescan.  It may partially update its own channel table at
that
> point.

I doubt most DTVs are that smart.  

Detecting this would require noticing that the TSID has changed.  I can't
think of any other reason to monitor the TSID.  The number of cases where
the TSID on a given RF channel will change will be very small, and almost
all of them will happen on Feb. 18 2009.  (unless the predictions of some
of massive RF channel swaps in the year or two after Transition come true)
 I've my doubts most designers will bother.