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Fix coming for ATSC minor channels guide bug

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If you use ATSC with Media Center, and have mapped minor channels to listings, you probably noticed that the listings from the .1 channel are duplicated across the other minor channels (if the callsigns are similar enough).  This results in a display like this in the guide:

This is more than a little inconvenient, since it also means that Media Center cannot schedule recordings accurately on the affected channels.

Coming in the next rollup QFE for Media Center (late Q1/early Q2), we have a fix for the problem.  Unfortunately, the fix required a code change and cannot be worked around with a registry tweak.

The way it should look is like this:

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  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2006
    Thank You, Thank You, Thank you.

    I've been holding off on RU2 (more accuratley, I rolled back to RU1) because of this bug. I can't wait to actually get to try out RU2!

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2006
    Excellent, now just get the vista team to remove the legacy requirement for an analog tuner (ugh) when you have a fusion HDTV usb device or some such, and will be right with the world, or near enough.

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2006
    Brett -

    I will look more closely at the way that the initial ATSC channel gets assigned to listings. If we get it wrong with the automatic assignment, though, you CAN fix it by going through the Edit Digital Listings screen (in Settings-->TV-->Guide).

    That's required for the minor channels, too, since they generally are not added automatically. We cannot generally add new features to the product that mess with such a sensitive area of the code (e.g. pseudo-hetergeneous tuning support ala ATSC).

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2006
    Sorry I don't follow the logic here. If it's about getting data, just let the let system lie and claim to have a analog tuner for that sole purpose. There shouldn't really be a physical reqiremtn...? Or provide an alternate data path maybe, or even better a custom path. I could point to a rss feed somewhere for the data instead... making it lock step can keep simple when you control all the hardware but since folks can do custom builds why not have advanced configuration options? Setting aside the dev time of course :). Just seems a dam shame to tie the next ge system with the same legacy configuration that frustrates so many, and then there is the fire wire issue of course, but I guess that should be separated, though from builder stand point they all relate.

  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 05, 2006
    Any chance of setting it up with your provider to include ATSC Listings with the broadcast lineups. I know for a fact that Zap2it already provides ATSC Channels integrated their broadcast lineups. So wouldn't it just be a matter of having Zap2it include the ATSC Channels in the broadcast lineups they provide to you?

  • Anonymous
    February 05, 2006
    I wanted to list a few miscellaneous issues that have been found recently with Update Rollup 2 for Media...

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2006
    I'm glad to hear this issue is on your radar.  I love the HD DVD burning in UR2 so I decided against doing a rollback of that updt.

    I yes, I think most folks are waiting for cablecard and DTV supt... made my day when reading that bit of CES news.  My only concern there is whether us DIY'rs are going to be SOL with our pre-built machines.  I'm hearing conflicting reports about whether the PC or just the cablecard device will need to be cablelabs certified.  I now wish I'd have held off building for another 9 months.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2006
    I have often used the USB tuner that came with my DELL MCE Laptop to temporarily get my main MCE to think that I have an NTSC TV Tuner while I also have the Fusion HDTV tuner (PCI) X 2 inside. I configure the TV settings and the two ATSC tuners, configure the guide, then unplug the DELL NTSC tuner and put it back in my travel bag for my notebook.
    At this point I edit the channels lineup to only have the 15 or so Digital TV channels that I get (uncheck all the analog ones).
    Thus no need for the NTSC tuner, except when I need to re-setup the TV settings, which is rare.

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