True. the analog signal that is sent to Dish sucks. However, this will not show the game on Saturday. I use 5.1 and 5.2 from OTA through my Dish DVR to pause, record, etc(HD locals are not yet available on Dish or Directv). This signal does get slightly degraded passing thru the DVR vs. my TVs OTA. But if I want to rewind, I will sacrifice that slight difference.
ISU FB at Oklahoma State Game Info (Time, TV, Etc)
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True. the analog signal that is sent to Dish sucks. However, this will not show the game on Saturday. I use 5.1 and 5.2 from OTA through my Dish DVR to pause, record, etc(HD locals are not yet available on Dish or Directv). This signal does get slightly degraded passing thru the DVR vs. my TVs OTA. But if I want to rewind, I will sacrifice that slight difference.
NU/OU is 7pm on ESPN. My guess is that the Iowa St. game will be on KETV and the Iowa game on ESPN.
According to Cox's website, KETV is carrying the Iowa/Illinois game. Makes sense, Omaha is prime Big 11 country :no:
Edit: I see now that the listing for ESPN says Florida State at Ga Tech OR Iowa at Illinois. Not sure what that means, but I guess maybe there's a chance that KETV shows ISU/OSU?
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I reset my DTV receiver, not HD, and all I get are the local channels, no 5.1 or 5.2. The atenna I am using is not HD either, but my TV is HD. Do I need to have an HD receiver or HD antenna to get 5.1 or 5.2? I thought I knew stuff about electronics until I came across this games situation, never knew there was a 5.2.
I just received the following e-mail from Ray Dole, director of WOI. DirectTV subscibers will be screwed out of the game.
Sorry for the delay in responding to you but both satellite carriers --
DirecTV and DISH -- have been trying throughout the week to clear some
technical hurdles. We just heard a short while ago that DISH Network is
planning to put the Iowa State on channel #446...but still has some issues
they're working around before they can say for 100% certain. I also just
heard back from DirecTV that they can not put the Iowa State game up on
their service on a special channel due to "spot beam capacity" issues
(that's the technology which allows both DISH and DirecTV to offer
local-into-local service in each DMA around the country).
Also, we've received many questions as to when DirecTV will offer the HD
signals of the local stations in the Des Moines market...in and around the
conversations we've had with them on the ISU game noted above, we learned
that the target for that HD service on DirecTV is now Wednesday, 11/19.
Finally, as I told you on the phone last week, we chose to place the Iowa
vs. Illinois game on ABC because it's the game with widest audience appeal
(we're in a ratings period!!) and advertiser interest (the game sold out
almost immediately). I believe we've gone above and beyond the call to make
the Iowa State game available to as many central Iowa viewers as possible.
Regards, Ray Cole
Sorry for the delay in responding to you but both satellite carriers --
DirecTV and DISH -- have been trying throughout the week to clear some
technical hurdles. We just heard a short while ago that DISH Network is
planning to put the Iowa State on channel #446...but still has some issues
they're working around before they can say for 100% certain. I also just
heard back from DirecTV that they can not put the Iowa State game up on
their service on a special channel due to "spot beam capacity" issues
(that's the technology which allows both DISH and DirecTV to offer
local-into-local service in each DMA around the country).
Also, we've received many questions as to when DirecTV will offer the HD
signals of the local stations in the Des Moines market...in and around the
conversations we've had with them on the ISU game noted above, we learned
that the target for that HD service on DirecTV is now Wednesday, 11/19.
Finally, as I told you on the phone last week, we chose to place the Iowa
vs. Illinois game on ABC because it's the game with widest audience appeal
(we're in a ratings period!!) and advertiser interest (the game sold out
almost immediately). I believe we've gone above and beyond the call to make
the Iowa State game available to as many central Iowa viewers as possible.
Regards, Ray Cole
If you have a Directv model HR-20 an OTA tuner is built in and you should receive 5.2 If you have an HR-21 or HR-22 you need an OTA tuner box. Otherwise plug your OTA antennae straight into your HD TV to see game but not record.
I answered this in another thread....
The HR2x HD DVRs do not "scan" for OTA channels. They pull them from a database held by Tribune Media. I spoke to Tribune Media yesterday and they had not added 5.2 to the database yet so you WILL NOT receive it with DirecTV HR2x HD DVRs and an OTA antenna until they add it to the database. My phonecall initiated the process, but it takes 5-10 days to get it added.
The old HR10 Tivo units do scan for the channels so if you have one of those with an antenna you will get it to show up in the guide.
Otherwise, you have to plug the antenna directly into the TV OR watch ESPN360 like I am going to do.
