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Just an odd curiosity here, wondering if anyone knows why this happens. But our Comcast operator offers standard definition programming on like cable box channels 2 thru 999....and then like high def from 1000 up to the top of the range
many channels are double represented, having both a slot in the low and high ranges
What I'm curious about is once in a while I'll tune in the hi-def variant of a channel that is double-represented ....watch it for several hours...and then upon opening my program guide I'll notice that the tuner has changed itself to the low def sister channel.
Just in illustration, I might tune in to channel 1177, and only hours later discover that the system has picked up the same programming, on channel 247...the low-def signal.
Since it appears to have some intelligence to it (it only acquires the same programming in the low def range) I assume it must in some way be intentional?
Somewhere in the menu of settings on our Comcast tuner that we can access through the remote, is an option to have the tuner automatically select the HD channel of any SD channel. So, for example, if you select the SD channel for ESPN, the tuner will automatically tune to the HD channel.
Wish that was the case for me. Thankfully my problem only happens 2-3 times per month, so it's more of a curiosity than it is a problem, but in the back of my mind I was wondering if it was some "feature" similar to what you mention, that was failing and giving me the bums rush to the standard def signal.
On rare occasions my box will just automatically switch to spanish language too, right while you are watching it, right in the middle of a program....no menu activity....just "boom" allsudden the audio goes spanish (and requires correction through the menu)
And, I've usually got CC going.....and from time to time it will just turn that feature off, requiring the user to go back in through the menu and turn CC back on.
I know that the program guide is continually updating throughout the day, and almost wonder if I'm getting some kind of data collision when that's going on, causing the box to go through an auto reset?
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