[mythtv] [PATCH] Channel preset hack

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon May 19 23:42:20 EDT 2003


On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:19:59AM -0500, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
> How about joining the rest of the civilized world and just using the real
> channel number? Is it really *that* much of a pain to not have your very own
> unique channel ID?
> 
> Channel # -> Frequency, just like the rest of us.

Except, of course, Matthew, that that's not even completely accurate in
the US anymore: both DTV broadcast and DBS satellite map multiple
channel numbers to a given band of modulated frequencies, as I
expounded on in an overly long posting (:-) a week or so ago.

Cheers,
-- jra
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