Dish and Duplicate HD channels

[jdonovan]

Dish network recently made software upgrades available to the vip-211 receiver that groups the high-def and standard-def channels together at the original 3-digit channel. There is now no way via the remote (and the R5000-hd) that I have found to tune to the standard def channel directly. For most channels this is fine, but for Discovery, Food, HGTV and a few others that run differing HD/SD programming lineups it makes it impossible to record the SD channel any longer.

I spent about 25 minutes with Dish customer service and they confirmed that you can no longer direct tune the SD channel when there is a HD equivalent. They said this is a ‘feature’ and there is no plan to change the way the tuning now works.

I don’t know if we can get Sage and/or the Nextcom folks to get a work around, but for now I’m no longer able to record our houses 2 most popular channels.

I'm having this problem with an R5000-hd setup, but I suspect it would also hit people using IR to tune channels as well.

[stanger89]

That's been bugging the crap out of me lately.

[camTexas]

same issue here... Anyone put a request in to Nextcom yet?

[grooves12]

You can disable the HD mapdown "feature" by going to system setup > local Channels > chan display > and then disable DishHD in guide.

This will remove the mapped down versions, but you will still be able to tune them in by keying in their channel # in the 9000's and you will now be able to access the SD version directly by their original channel number. Basically it goes back to the way it used to be.

[stanger89]

You rock!

Thanks!

[Fuzzy]

Wow grooves, that just SERIOUSLY boosted my WAF... hehe

Now to make seperate channel lineups for my 211 so I can get the HD and SD channels... I think I may logical remap the HD channels to -1, so they are listed together.

[Scriber]

Ahhhhhh..... I knew that setting was in there somewhere but couldn't find it for months...thx