[mythtv-users] Is it worth while to do a new channel scan

Brent Bolin brent.bolin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 16:26:02 UTC 2013


Thanks for your reply

They haven't and I didn't suspect they did.  Removed a winegard pre-amp out
of the loop.  Seems to have fixed.  Not really sure it was ever needed
because I'm only 20+ miles from Chicago broadcast towers.

We shall see

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:

>
> Doing OTA recordings.  Lately seems to be a lot of pixelation.  It's been
>> at least a year or so since it was last done.
>>
>
> Nope... won't change anything (unless channels have moved).
>
> If your getting pixelation, it's likely a reception issue.  A channel is a
> channel... the database simply stores the ATSC/NTSC/other channel
> frequency... it's not going to suddenly change (unless the signal is moved
> to a new channel altogether).  So the database will look exactly the same
> after a rescan.
>
>
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