moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| What is going on with digital channels? (MD area)
O.k. I used to be able to get a bunch of the digital channels on my TV without a box with the QAM tuner. Now, not only are many of the channels gone but re-mapped to way different location.
Example: 9-2 which is usually Washington D.C. WUSA's weather radar somehow is now 11-2 Baltimore WBAL's weather watch channel. 11-1 and 11-2 don't even show up. |
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AnnapTV
@verizon.net | I noticed the same thing. Does anyone know why this happened? Most of the digital subchannels are gone or have moved. I just dont have the time to scan every channel to find out where they might be. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | The only digital subs I have now are 20-1 (WDCA) and 50-1. |
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BDavis24
join:2008-04-30
USA
 ·Comcast
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to AnnapTV
Yes - the reason these may have changed, is the QAM tuner uses the frequency number, similar to over the air radio 96.9. Comcast may have changed some frequencies of channels around causing this to happen. People with cable boxes aren't going to notice cause the box is updated by Comcast right away, updates are usually done after mid-night anyways. It is usually an indication of upgrades, making more room for channels in the future. It could also be caused by other upgrades like system (cable box software updates).
If you call into tech support for your area they may have the QAM list of frequencies available to go over with you if you need to. |
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treeman
Premium
join:2000-07-15
Mcgaheysville, VA | reply to moonpuppy
They also do it to encourage customers to rent a box from them, you don't have to keep rescanning that way. More on this at the AVS forum |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | reply to BDavis24
I did some searching and I found a few of them but they are all over the place.
Think it might be time to call Verizon and look into FIOS.  |
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