Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

[TheRolyPoly]

The LDL is still being used when the LF is not on

[wxmancanada]

The LDL remains off during LF's because of appearance. It wouldn't look right jumping from the local boxes to the national feed with the LDL suddenly on screen.

About Dish's LDL... IIRC both DirecTV and Dish are controlled via the same config file (seprate systems, but similar configuration) so when TWC removed the LDL from showing during the LF's for DirecTV, it problaly got applied to Dish's LDL as well.

[narunetto]

The LDL remains off during LF's because of appearance. It wouldn't look right jumping from the local boxes to the national feed with the LDL suddenly on screen.

About Dish's LDL... IIRC both DirecTV and Dish are controlled via the same config file (seprate systems, but similar configuration) so when TWC removed the LDL from showing during the LF's for DirecTV, it problaly got applied to Dish's LDL as well.

I think Dish's still works.
(also Kyle, if you stop by the IRC again, just highlight me because i'm there )

[wxmancanada]

K

One other quick point... Those DTV boxes would NOT have the power to render any transitions let alone a full 720 res. video for a transition... Im sure the boxes are already choking to pull this off as it is..

[Jake]

I changed the zip code in my box and the local on the 8s switched along with it. very interesting .

[narunetto]

K

One other quick point... Those DTV boxes would NOT have the power to render any transitions let alone a full 720 res. video for a transition... Im sure the boxes are already choking to pull this off as it is..

Yeah.. I would guess that they are on their last limb doing this whole thing as is.

[Localonthe8s]

Wow i hope our boxes aren't damaged by this.

[Mike M]

They wont... just make sure ti doesn't get too hot. If it does, turn it off for awhile.

[Localonthe8s]

I hope they improve this feature nevertheless. I see many flaws. I like it that such an application was developed though. If I change the channel right after the local kicks in, it shows the satellite lf instead.

[narunetto]

I hope they improve this feature nevertheless. I see many flaws. I like it that such an application was developed though. If I change the channel right after the local kicks in, it shows the satellite lf instead.

I tried the same thing but it came on.

[wxmancanada]

I hope they improve this feature nevertheless. I see many flaws. I like it that such an application was developed though. If I change the channel right after the local kicks in, it shows the satellite lf instead.

I tried the same thing but it came on.

What receiver do you have?

[Joe The Dragon]

The LDL remains off during LF's because of appearance. It wouldn't look right jumping from the local boxes to the national feed with the LDL suddenly on screen.

About Dish's LDL... IIRC both DirecTV and Dish are controlled via the same config file (seprate systems, but similar configuration) so when TWC removed the LDL from showing during the LF's for DirecTV, it problaly got applied to Dish's LDL as well.

when will DirecTV and Dish get HD stars so they can have a LDL when the 8's is not on?

[narunetto]

I hope they improve this feature nevertheless. I see many flaws. I like it that such an application was developed though. If I change the channel right after the local kicks in, it shows the satellite lf instead.

I tried the same thing but it came on.

What receiver do you have?

I have the... D12-300

[Localonthe8s]

I like the local "On Demand" version too! U get forecasts and live radar for any city nearby. I'm gonna try NYC

[narunetto]

We've had that for some time, just not under the same name.