[mythtv-users] QAM channels for COMCAST in chicago ..

Kevin Kuphal kkuphal at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 14:29:10 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Irumbo Mateene <imateene at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> does any one have a working mythtv channel conf file for the local free HDTV
> channels like FOX, ABC, CBS etc ..
>
> I am currently using OTA and can't receive 2 channels properly ..  I am
> evaluating COMCAST local basic service, but mythtv is only picking up the SD
> versions of these channels. however my TV that has a built in Tuner is
> picking up all the HD channels.
>
> When I used to have COMCAST I was able to pick the HD channels without a
> problem..  I suspect COMCAST may have intentionally done something to their
> lineup to make it difficult for other tuners to work ..
>
> I happen to have a listing of COMCAST free channel lineup with the HD
> channels from http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/channels , if any one has
> used this data would they know how to map these values into a channels.conf
> file that I could then load into mythtv ?

Silicon dust provides an Excel and OpenOffice spreadsheet file that
helps map channels to frequencies.  I'm on Comcast in the suburbs and
never had a problem scanning for channels

http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2335

Kevin


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