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<blockquote data-quote="RonD" data-source="post: 988272" data-attributes="member: 117536">My SF Bay area has 1 Physical Channel that has 3 normal ATSC subchannels and 4 or 5 encrypted as part of a OTA paid service called Airbox.com. The encrypted channels show up as red/locked, the clear ATSC channels show up as green/unlocked. For OTA scanning this does not seem to cause problems, but I do see some channels that show &quot;Unknown&quot; for the channel names. Most of the time if I delete the &quot;unknown&quot; channels, do a rescan, the scanning works the 2nd time. This is for OTA, I don't have cable/QAM so I don't have any experience with that option.&nbsp;I was surprised the 1st time I saw encrypted channels. In the SF area this is KKPX-TV (65), see <a href="http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php" target="_blank">http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php</a> and click on San Francisco and KKPX (65). I've never seen anything about airbox.com on local area news or where you could buy the &quot;airbox&quot; to receive these channels. In MePo I tried flipping the &quot;Free To Air&quot; bit but I still was not able to watch those channels so I guess they are really encrypted. With a &quot;normal TV&quot; the channel scan does not detect any of the encrypted/airbox channels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RonD, post: 988272, member: 117536"] My SF Bay area has 1 Physical Channel that has 3 normal ATSC subchannels and 4 or 5 encrypted as part of a OTA paid service called Airbox.com. The encrypted channels show up as red/locked, the clear ATSC channels show up as green/unlocked. For OTA scanning this does not seem to cause problems, but I do see some channels that show "Unknown" for the channel names. Most of the time if I delete the "unknown" channels, do a rescan, the scanning works the 2nd time. This is for OTA, I don't have cable/QAM so I don't have any experience with that option. I was surprised the 1st time I saw encrypted channels. In the SF area this is KKPX-TV (65), see [url]http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php[/url] and click on San Francisco and KKPX (65). I've never seen anything about airbox.com on local area news or where you could buy the "airbox" to receive these channels. In MePo I tried flipping the "Free To Air" bit but I still was not able to watch those channels so I guess they are really encrypted. With a "normal TV" the channel scan does not detect any of the encrypted/airbox channels. [/QUOTE]

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