Seems like a good time to switch this topic to a new subject ;)
I haven't had cable TV for a while; I've just been watching over-the- TV and stuff from Netflix, etc. There's even interesting stuff on YouTube too.. As far as over-the-air TV, in a place that gets good
There's an app that's available on all platforms at this point (I use it on FireTV and Roku) called PlutoTV which very much mimics a cable TV
type format but it's really just a streaming playlist of YouTube clips/movies that's currently free and backed by ads. It's one possible entertainment option to those that don't want to pay for cable.
Digital channels seem to be able to have multiple channels from the s station (for instance, where I live, we hvae a 12-1, 12-2, etc.). Th
If you have a good antenna or are close to the programming sources, this is another great option. My area's main network channels also have sub-channels like This (a lot of obscure movies from the 60s through
80s), Decades (shows from 60s through 80s like every Dick Cavett interview), Laff (which seems to only show Night Court reruns, Comet
(for all your cheesy sci-fi movie and tv needs -- including Stargate
The channel numbers do NOT correspond to RF channels (in fact, RF channels below 6 do not exist in Australia anymore). The numbers are logical numbers that mostly correspond to the RF channels from the analog days from some regional area of the state, The actual RF channels are on UHF in the channels 28 - 50 range, except for the ATV repeater, which is nearly 100 MHz below channel 28 at 446.5 MHz centr frequency (443 - 450 MHz).
Of additional geeky interest to those interested, some channels in my
area are selling their bandwidth to the cellphone companies because they are willing to pay top dollar. As a result, the providers will be performing what's called a "repack" which in most cases will keep the front-facing channel numbers the same, but the RFs behind the scenes
would change.
A couple stations will be shutting down their operations and relocating
to sub-channels of other stations they partner with.
In either cases, the consumer will have to re-scan all their channels to get them again after the repack.
SquigY0 wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Of additional geeky interest to those interested, some channels in my
area are selling their bandwidth to the cellphone companies because they are willing to pay top dollar. As a result, the providers will be performing what's called a "repack" which in most cases will keep the front-facing channel numbers the same, but the RFs behind the scenes
would change.
A couple stations will be shutting down their operations and relocating
to sub-channels of other stations they partner with.
In either cases, the consumer will have to re-scan all their channels to get them again after the repack.
Of additional geeky interest to those interested, some channels in my area are selling their bandwidth to the cellphone companies because t are willing to pay top dollar. As a result, the providers will be performing what's called a "repack" which in most cases will keep the front-facing channel numbers the same, but the RFs behind the scenes would change.
This was managed by the government here. Some spectrum has been taken away from broadcast TV and sold off.
SquigY0 wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Official changes announced for my city: "Channel
24/WUTB, and a revised over-the-air channel lineup for its Baltimore stations, Channel 45/WBFF and Channel 54/WNUV. WUTB, Baltimore's My TV affiliate, will be on a subchannel of WNUV. The Grit and Charge
channels will be gone in Baltimore for the time being. The new lineup includes: 54-1 WNUV-HD, 54-2 WUTB, 54-3 American Sports Network, 45-1 WBFF,45-2 Comet TV, 45-3 This TV, 45-4 Antenna TV....."
Hmm, OK, yeah we haven't had that sort of shuffling here. Oh, and your
TV numbering scheme still uses RF channel numbers? DVB-T no longer uses RF channel numbers, it's purely logical. Each channel has a logical channel number. Channels that are on the same RF stream have the same first digit (e.g. 2, 21, 22, 23, 24 are all from the same transmitter).
SquigY0 wrote to Vk3jed <=-
The channels are still referred to (from the consumer side) like
they're RF channel numbers. But they're definitely logical, because
the channel scan shows the same thing that you're describing -- the channel number that you're tuning to will be picked up on a completely different logical number.
My understanding is when this shuffle happens, they'll put something on the old logical IDs saying to rescan so the new locations can be picked up. I'll make note of the IDs then.
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