[mythtv-users] EIT data in New York City OTA broadcasts.

[A. F. Cano]

Hello everyone,

Before I complain to Nielsen about missing EIT data, can anyone confirm
that the situation is like I see it here, and not a problem with my
configuration or reception?

I get 72 channels total.  Most have good (*) EIT data for varying periods.

These are the channels that have problematic EIT data:

24.x	No data at all, ever.  Since I've been using Myth, I've never
	seen EIT data on any of these channels.  Am I correct to assume
	that they just don't transmit it? or should I tweak some item in
	my setup?  I receive them just fine.

25.3	(CUNY TV) Very sporadic.  Right now there is no EIT data, even
	though 25.1 and 25.2 do.  This makes it likely that they're not
	transmitting it.  It's likely not my reception.

34.x	No data at all.  I don't think I've ever seen any.  I receive
	34.1 and 34.2 just fine, 34.3 pops up a window that says "Could
	not read first 2048 bytes" and fails.

45.x	No data at all.  I can receive them just fine, but no data,
	presumably because they're shopping channels.  Correct?

48.x	No data at all, and when I try to watch it live I get this
	error: "Error opening jump program file buffer".  Does anyone
	know why this happens? Had to power-cycle the tuner to get rid
	of this error.  I get no reception of these channels at this
	time (only TL lock myth says), so it's likely that poor data
	messed up the tuner or the driver.

50.1	I've seen EIT data a long time ago, but nothing since.  I wonder
	if this is a problem with my setup or some corruption in the
	database.  Can someone confirm that 50.1 has EIT data?  I
	receive the channel just fine.

51,x	These channels all show TBA, so they're transmitting EIT data,
	but it's useless.

63.1	Sporadic.
	63.2,3,4: never.
	63.5,6,7: ok.
	So, I presume that EIT data is not transmitted on the
	sub-channels where I don't get it.

Can someone confirm my findings?

* When I say "good" eit data, I mean in the sense that I get data, as
opposed to none.  All EIT data has the seemingly random issue that was
being discussed in a thread earlier today about the program contents
being mismatched to the actual show.  This issue apparently affects data
received by Schedules Direct too.

Thanks!

Augustine