[mythtv-users] Working SF Bay area channels.conf?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Thu May 4 18:54:59 EDT 2006


On May 4, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:

> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> On May 4, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yeechang Lee wrote:
>>>
>>>> Two questions:
>>>> 1) Does the feature added in 0.19 to import channels from a
>>>>    channels.conf file actually work? I've tried several  
>>>> channels.conf
>>>>    files found through searches but none actually seemed to do
>>>>    anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I switched to QAM and it worked
>>>
>>>> 2) Assuming a positive answer to 1) I'd love to see someone's
>>>>    verified-as-working channels.conf for over-the-air broadcasts  
>>>> for
>>>>    SF Bay area stations.
>>>>
>>> As I said, I switched to QAM, but here's what I got for OTA in SF  
>>> (I'm
>>> in the SouthBay):
>>>
>>> KNTV-HD:207000000:8VSB:65:68:4
>>> NBCWea:207000000:8VSB:81:84:5
>>> KBWB-HD:503000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> KBWB-SD:503000000:8VSB:65:68:4
>>> KGO-DT1:533000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> KGO-DT2:533000000:8VSB:65:68:4
>>> KTSF-D2:551000000:8VSB:49:68:4
>>> KTSF-D1:551000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> KPIX-DT:563000000:8VSB:49:52:1
>>> KQED-HD:569000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> ENCORE:569000000:8VSB:65:68:4
>>> WORLD:569000000:8VSB:81:84:5
>>> LIFE:569000000:8VSB:97:100:6
>>> KIDS:569000000:8VSB:113:116:7
>>> KMTP-DT:587000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> KFSF-DT:593000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> KFSF-D2:593000000:8VSB:65:68:4
>>> KCNS-DT:623000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> KKPX-FaithTV:635000000:8VSB:97:100:6
>>> KKPX-Worship:635000000:8VSB:81:84:5
>>> KKPX-Pax:635000000:8VSB:65:68:4
>>> KKPX-DT:635000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> KCSM-TV:647000000:8VSB:33:36:2
>>> Jazz-TV1:647000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> Jazz-TV2:647000000:8VSB:65:68:4
>>> KBHK-DT:659000000:8VSB:49:52:1
>>> KSTS-DT:683000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> KTEH-DT:689000000:8VSB:49:52:1
>>> KICU-HD:701000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> KICU-SD:701000000:8VSB:65:68:4
>>> KTVU-HD:725000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> KTVU-DT:725000000:8VSB:65:68:4
>>> KRON-SD:731000000:8VSB:49:52:3
>>> KRON-HD:731000000:8VSB:65:68:4
>>>
>>
>> That's encouraging. I'm moving to south of the Mission in June.
>> Looking forward to all those new channels!
>>
> 3 times that on comcast.
> The problem I have with comcast is that the signals seem to vary,  
> in my
> experience anyway. Sometime the recordings are great. Most of the  
> time,
> they are terrible. Well.. let's say that I _think_ they are the
> recordings (using HD3000). I don't have an HDTV tuner outside of  
> myth to
> test if it's the recordings or the playback.

I've heard about the horrors of Bay-area cable. The place I'm moving  
to has DirecTV. I plan on buying a second receiver for it and getting  
two HD-3000's to add to my PVR-350. Ut oh.. I think I need more drives.


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