Is it a known fact that in a thunderstorm or other weather event that blocks the Directv signal, switching to the standard definition channels will give you a picture? I just found this out about a week ago after having Directv for almost 8 years :( An AT& T guy told me this and I thought he was just blowing smoke but over the weekend we had one of our many Florida T-storms and it works.
Its SD so the picture stinks compared to HD but it's better than no picture at all.
Further tip: Go to your custom setting in the guide (you know where you filter only the channels you want to see in the guide). Select "all channels I get">find the SD versions of your favorite channels and ad them to your custom guide. This way you show the SD for the channels you want to see in bad weather and not have dupe SD channels showing with all the HD channels in your guide.
Not true, works on them just fine
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Since they are broadcasted on network feeds which I believe only do so in HD.
Not true, works on them just fine
For example if the game if a game is on the Fox feed which is on channel 398 for the HD. What channel would I go to for the SD?
But it's still the same in that case, it will be the 2nd 398. So you would have to have your display preferences set to "show all channels" and then put in 398, and hit up one channel to get to the SD channel.
There is no way to directly go to the SD channel, you have to go to HD channel first then channel up once to get to the SD one
It sometimes takes a few minutes for the change to take effect, did you just change the display preferences in settings or did you do it a while ago
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