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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin
Sony sets with both NTSC and ASTC tuners waste alot of the lengthy autoprogram time looking for OTA analog...first. Analog is fully extinct here.
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Sonys aren't the only sets which do that. My Insignia flat screen, as well as most if not all modern TVs with ATSC digital tuners, does it too. I wish it didn't; every time I rescan my set I have to go through every one of the analog broadcast channels and remove them from the scan list.
Fortunately, I don't have to rescan very often; the set retains my channel list even after short power outages. Good thing, too, as I have the channel scan set for my favorite channels on Time Warner Cable. It is a time-consuming task to go through the entire scan list (probably over 60 channels, including several in the 100s range and some blank ones in the 80s-90s) and uncheck the stations I don't care to watch, including the ones that are now carried in digital only. The latter channels now only show a screen that says "Get your TV picture back. . . .", along with a photo of the small converter box now needed (and charged extra for on your cable bill) to receive the digital channels on older TVs.