[mythtv] Ticket #2087: Clean up NTSC cable frequency tables

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/25/06 12:40, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 12:29 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>On 07/25/06 11:51, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 01:22 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>>>If that's not changed, the table created by 
>>>>the "cablehigh0" definition is missing channels 93 and 94 (and those 
>>>>that exist are at the wrong frequencies).
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>>>cablehigh should only include channels above 730Mhz in frequency, but the
>>>enumeration should match the tables...
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>>730MHz?  Currently for standard it starts at channel 78, which has a 
>>center frequency of 549MHz.
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>Make that 530Mhz :)
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Understood. :)

>>For this I think I should modify scanwizardhelper to label it "Cable ?RC 
>>76+" and fix the enumeration to start at 76.
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>I would probably call it "Cable High" and leave the actual channels out of
>it. But basically the enumeration should start at 76 for now. There is
>no exact cut-off, basically the cable providers tend to stick digital
>channels above the analog ones. cablehigh is intended to allow you to
>skip most of the low frequencies so that the scan doesn't spend minutes
>scanning channels where there probably aren't any digital transports. My
>first digital channels are in the 80's...
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Sounds good.  And, the channel numbers in the UI are likely to cause 
more confusion than benefit.

Thanks for walking me through this.  I'll get patches in #2087 shortly.

Mike