digital transition

Never have been able to get the local NBC (11) with the converter box, this has not changed.

Now that they've converted ABC (kgo 7) has also disappeared.

I called the number their radio station had mentioned for people with problems.

The woman said that there are a lot of people who can't get them any more.

They are broadcasting on lowered power while they are still doing stuff to remove the analog transmitters. Then they will move the digital ones to where the analog ones were and boost the power.

She says a lot more people aren't receiving them than they thought that would happen to.

Supposedly it will be back in a week or so.


My other findings of some minor annoyance with the converter is:

a) if the sound on the converter is down low, or off (as it was for one episode of Eastenders taped while I was gone) then the vcr doesn't get the sound and you can't turn it up.

b) the inactivity timer and the events timer don't communicate. If you had the converter turned on to the same channel before a timed event starts (or you are taping something long) the converter may just decide to turn itself off during something you have programmed it to show for taping. (Happened at a critical moment during Lost In Austen, luckily I tried to watch it late the same night and noticed in time to tape the early am rebroadcast)

c) whenever it switches on it tries to download program information and won't show program until it's done. If you are sitting there, you can hit cancel to stop it, but if you are using timer and are trying to tape something. You'll get this first.

Overall it's working ok. It'd be better to get ABC and NBC back. I just have to learn to work around the converter box quirks.