The numbering of the digital channels is to help the people that know nothing of TV past turning it on and changing channels. The station that I work for is channel 4. Our digital transmitter is on channel 34, but, the viewers know it is 4-1. That way they do not get lost in the channels. I do not know of any of the sets that display the real digital channel. I guess that some may, if, you really dig into the menus.
So for now, the viewers of analog channel 4 know the digital channel as 4-1 and not the real channel of channel 34. As far a new digital channels, all bets are off. You will have to ask the lawyers at the FCC as they no longer have many technical people on staff. They have found it a much more lucrative business of selling commodities that they do not own than helping to further the use of the RF spectrum. Look at the mess that allowed Nextel to get away with. We will see what happens when the analog channel turn off date passes. 73 Glenn WB4UIV At 08:11 PM 01/06/08, you wrote: >Many of my local channels are using tags that have the ANALOG channel >name. For example, while KDKA TV-2 DTV is on channel 25, the tag is 2-1 >which is what you enter to see that channel. Either they are going to >move back to channel 2 or things are going to get even more confusing if >you have a channel 25 station you have to enter 2-1 when there is no >channel 2. What happens when a DTV channel 2 comes along (if that should >ever happen)? > >4 (I forget their DTV channel) is using 4-1 and 4-2. 11 is using 11-1, >11-2, and 11-3. > >Joe M. > >Ben wrote: > > > > Here is a good list of what the channels will be like when the analog > > shuts off: > > http://www.w9wi.com/dtvch/dtvch.html > > Many are going back to their original VHF channel. Here in Bowling > > Green, KY it looks like channel 13 will turn off their digital that > > is on 33 now and stay on the old analog channel 13 as DTV. In > > Nashville channels 4,5 & 8 will stay on VHF. > > > > If you haven't tried to rx DTV yet it's time you did. I can watch > > channels now in studio quality that in analog are almost unwatchable > > by todays standards. HD signals are very nice too! It's easy to pick > > these channels up with the antenna you have up now and the cost is > > just going to do down from here. All TV's sold today are required to > > have DTV tuners. Go to Walmart and look. > > > > Several channels in Nashville are running up to 4 or more services on > > one channel. Here in Bowling Green Channel 40-1 is NBC, 40-2 is CBS, > > 13-1 is ABC, 13-2 is FOX, 13-3 is UPN(or what ever they call > > theirselves today), 53-1 to 53-6 are Kentucky Educational Television > > channels. They run PBS HD on 53-4...so many stations are broadcasting > > more than one service in that 6 MHz. > > > > Ben > > W4WSM > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
