[mythtv-users] Analog firewire recordings end early due to 25% fewer frames

[Tony Brummett]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> If you're asking whether (as many providers do) the company simulcasts
> the analog channels on a separate set of digital channels, the answer
> is sadly no, according to the provider's channel listings. Believe me,
> I'd be very happy were this the case.

You can't go by the provider's listings.  The only way to be sure is
to hook up a QAM tuner and scan for channels.

For example, my cable provider's listings shows CBS as, say, channel
4.  And you can take an NTSC tuner from a regular TV or a PVR250 and
tune to channel 4 and get the analog signal.  Scanning the cable with
an HDHomerun in QAM mode shows that same video is also on, say,
channel 79.5.  There's no way that I know of to tell if the DCT6200 is
using the analog or digital channel when you tell it to go to channel
4, though I would bet it's the digital one.  Maybe it's in one of the
service-mode menus?

-- Tony