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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:15 pm 
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A few months ago I lost my FOX high def channel, 29-1 (WTXF-29, Philly). I still have SD 29-5 but watching football via SD sucks moose ca-ca. Has this been happening to anyone else in other markets? I thought anything OTA was required to be transmitted in the clear?

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 6:28 pm 
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According to this page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTXF-TV#Out-of-market_coverage

WTXF is carried in central New Jersey in parts of Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset and Warren, Morris and Sussex counties. It is available to all customers in Ocean County with Comcast or Cablevision.
Comcast added WTXF HD to its lineups in Ocean and Southern Middlesex counties as well as the borough of Roosevelt in Monmouth County and Comcast's Lambertville area system in Hunterdon County on August 22, 2012 as Channel 905

Not sure if that helps but you would have to have Comcast HDTV box to get 905. If you lived near Philly in the burbs I suppose it would be a local channel..


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:23 pm 
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Does it say that it is encrypted?
While I suspect that all TV stations are evil I would start by trouble shooting your antenna first. Only hook one tuner up to the antenna without any splitters and see if you can tune the channel. It might be a low signal and by splitting it you are loosing the high bandwidth versions.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:53 pm 
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Thanks for your help. I presumed that WTXF was out of philly as I have lived here (Burlington County) for ten years now and it's always been our Fox channel.

I tried upgrading the firmware on the HDHomerun on the off chance that it would fix the issue. It has helped in a way--I know see more encrypted channels Comcast is hiding from me. Bummer.

I don't use an OTA antenna. My HDH is connected to Comcast directly. The scan output is below. I'm hoping that Fox (PROGRAM 6: 29.5 WTXF-29) is available on some other channel that I'm just too dense to realize it.

Thanks, Abs

# homerun_config xxxxxx scan 0 | grep PROGRAM | grep -v encrypted

PROGRAM 1: 0
PROGRAM 2: 0
PROGRAM 10: 0
PROGRAM 11: 0
PROGRAM 21: 0
PROGRAM 22: 0
PROGRAM 4: 0
PROGRAM 7: 0
PROGRAM 10: 0
PROGRAM 1: 6.1 WPVI-HD
PROGRAM 2: 10.1 WCAU-DT
PROGRAM 3: 6.2 LiveWel
PROGRAM 4: 6.3 LiveWel
PROGRAM 5: 10.2 NSTOP
PROGRAM 10: 0
PROGRAM 8: 0
PROGRAM 1: 57.1 WPSG
PROGRAM 5: 35.4 Global
PROGRAM 6: 35.5 World
PROGRAM 7: 35.6 RT
PROGRAM 128: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 129: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 130: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 131: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 132: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 133: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 134: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 135: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 136: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 137: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 138: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 141: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 142: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 145: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 146: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 147: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 1: 0
PROGRAM 9: 0
PROGRAM 10: 0
PROGRAM 1: 3.5 KYW-3
PROGRAM 2: 6.5 WPVI-6
PROGRAM 3: 10.5 WCAU-10
PROGRAM 4: 12.7 WHYY-12
PROGRAM 5: 17.5 WPHL-17
PROGRAM 6: 29.5 WTXF-29
PROGRAM 7: 48.1 WGTW-48
PROGRAM 8: 57.5 WPSG-57
PROGRAM 9: 61.5 WPPX-61
PROGRAM 10: 65.5 WUVP-65
PROGRAM 11: 69.5 WFMZ-69
PROGRAM 12: 8.1 TCN
PROGRAM 13: 33.1 WZPA
PROGRAM 2: 51.5 WTVE
PROGRAM 3: 23.5 WNJN-23
PROGRAM 6: 44.5 WMCN-44
PROGRAM 8: 0
PROGRAM 10: 62.5 WWSI-62
PROGRAM 12: 35.5 WYBE-35
PROGRAM 32: 0 (control)
PROGRAM 3: 0
PROGRAM 3: 0
PROGRAM 8: 0
PROGRAM 1: 0
PROGRAM 1: 0
PROGRAM 2: 0
PROGRAM 1: 23.1 WMCN HD
PROGRAM 2: 23.5 BOUNCE
PROGRAM 3: 44.1 NJTV HD
PROGRAM 3: 0
PROGRAM 35: 0
PROGRAM 1: 12.1 WHYY
PROGRAM 2: 3.1 KYW-DT
PROGRAM 3: 12.2 Y Arts
PROGRAM 4: 12.3 Y Info
PROGRAM 1: 61.1 ION HD
PROGRAM 2: 69.1 WFMZ HD
PROGRAM 3: 69.6 Me TV
PROGRAM 1: 0
PROGRAM 2: 0
PROGRAM 1: 0
PROGRAM 2: 0
PROGRAM 3: 0
PROGRAM 4: 0
PROGRAM 5: 0
PROGRAM 2: 0

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 10:30 pm 
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Found it. They moved it to freqid 183 (us cable channel 8 ) on serviceid 2.

To find the frequency I let Comcast's equipment do the work. I have the Scientific Atlanta settop box. I hit "info" and the center button of the four arrow keys simultaneously when I was tuned to the Fox HD channel. The first page that comes up tells you the frequency.

Then I used "hdhomerun_config scan" (which I previously posted) to find the us-cable equivalent of frequency 183.000. Then i made the channels visible in the database and watched the channels till I found the offset that was Fox HD. (Six channels are multiplexed together on this frequency.)

Then I moved the SD Fox channel back to 29-5 and move 8-2 to 29-1, fixed the callsign, name, and xmltvid fields in the database. Finally I bounced mythbackend and ran mythfilldatabase.

Voila. Hope this helps someone else.

Thanks, Abs

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:46 pm 
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in that case yes Comcast is allowed to encrypt the stations that are also broadcasting over the air.

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 1:04 am 
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I'm still having a small issue getting the guide data from 29_5 (aka WTXF-SD) to replicate to 29_1 (aka WTXF-HD). I thought it was the xmltvid field that controlled this. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Strangely the HD channel matches the SD for most programs during the day--mainly it's the NFL programming that's missing. In lieu of the upcoming Eagles game my guide data says I'm going to see some highlights of past Phillies games. (gotta laugh on that one)

Is there any way to look at the raw guide data to see if it's incoming right?

Thanks, Abs

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:21 pm 
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Figured the issue out. I had these variables incorrect in the same channel table.

atsc_major_chan | atsc_minor_chan | tvformat

Issue resolved.

Fyi, Abs

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