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Jan 13, 2008 | 12:16 PM

tewferford

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Quick HDTV question

I have two hd flat screen tv,s One is a 19" sanyo 6 mths old and the other is a 32" Polaroid 2 days old. When i set up the first one and scanned for digital channels it found 16. When i scanned on the new one it found 68. FYI I have cable. Now, why would one find more than the other. Just curious.....

Jan 13, 2008 | 03:39 PM

Aztrainer

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Did you scan at the same time?

Could be that the second one picked up sub channels like 12 and 12-1.

This is just a guess.

Jan 13, 2008 | 07:06 PM

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one may be set to "antenna" as the tuner

the other may be set to "cable"

Jan 13, 2008 | 09:35 PM

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I'll bet that your "older" set only has an NTSC/ATSC tuner while the newer one has both of those plus a QAM tuner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_tuner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAM_tuner

Mike

Jan 14, 2008 | 05:26 AM

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Yeah I think thats what it is, different tuners. One gets the sub chanels the other don't. Not that I need them anyway. I guess thats why the Sanyo was so cheap. We only bought it to save a little space in the bedroom. Thanks guys.