http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/23/mythtv-guide-data-rebuild-in-san-francisco/ A former physicist tries to make sense of technology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:45:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/23/mythtv-guide-data-rebuild-in-san-francisco/#comment-51 Surfing the Luminiferous Ether » Blog Archive » Another lineup rebuild erases MythTV guide data Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:41:22 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/11/23/mythtv-guide-data-rebuild-in-san-francisco/#comment-51 [...] A quick check of the guide data showed that there was “NO DATA” on TV, just like last week. Only now, it was because the format of the digital channels stored by Zap2It apparently changed. When I went to edit the linup on line, I saw that the digital channels had vanished; re-constructing the lineup showed the problem. The digital channels are now referred to not by their frequency, but by their remapped number. (In the picture below, KQED’s digital channels are 9-1 through 9-5; a week ago, they all appeared as channel 30.) [...] [...] A quick check of the guide data showed that there was “NO DATA” on TV, just like last week. Only now, it was because the format of the digital channels stored by Zap2It apparently changed. When I went to edit the linup on line, I saw that the digital channels had vanished; re-constructing the lineup showed the problem. The digital channels are now referred to not by their frequency, but by their remapped number. (In the picture below, KQED’s digital channels are 9-1 through 9-5; a week ago, they all appeared as channel 30.) [...]

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