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Originally Posted by agnerc
I have Dish Network and I watch NBC on channel 2 and are you saying currently that channel is the analog channel?
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If you are getting that channel through satellite, not over-the-air, it's a digitized version of the analog broadcast, not the HD broadcast. Keep in mind that if it's a satellite channel, "channel 2" is really something like "dish channel 8372", the satellite receiver just maps that 4 digit channel to a virtual channel
# matching your local over-the-air channel so it's easier to remember. The HD channel number would be on something like "dish channel 6391", but again the receiver would map it to channel 2, see below. (I am using Houston, TX, as an example, as I have no idea where you actually are.)
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So if I order HD from Dish Network then I would be watching NBC on a different channel?
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If you select the HD channel, yes. But the way the current HD Dish receivers work, it will still be labeled "channel 2". By default you will now see two "channel 2"s in your guide, one is the HD, the other is the SD. There are options in the setup menu to change it to display only the HD channel. I think if you select "2", it will default to the new HD channel now. If you channel down (up?) from there you select the old channel 2, the one you are using now.
Different providers have different mapping schemes, above only applies to Dish network. In your case you'd be entering the same virtual channel #, but the receiver would be tuning to a different actual channel. With other providers like Comcast, DirecTV, you enter the channel differently also.