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<blockquote data-quote="milhouse" data-source="post: 495902" data-attributes="member: 26653">In the U.S., the FCC mandates that over the air digital broadcasts need to be made available over QAM (unscrambled) by the cable companies.&nbsp; But they forgot to mentioned it should also be easy and follow standards.&nbsp; So in most markets, QAM is a mess.&nbsp; The virtual channel (major/minor) MAY be broadcast correctly, or it may not.&nbsp; It is quite common for your digital television to list a channel as 22.1 but major/minor is actually broadcast as 0.0 as seen by mediaportal.&nbsp; And, as you mentioned, they can move them around at will, and you have to do it all over again.As you noticed, ALL channels show up in a channel scan, even if encrypted.&nbsp; A patch has been submitted for 1.1 that will help a lot, I think, in removing encrypted channels during the scan.<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/improvement-suggestions-46/remove-scrambled-channels-55119/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/improvement-suggestions-46/remove-scrambled-channels-55119/</a>Most of the detected channel are scrambled.&nbsp; So your best best is to go to the EPG and try to tune each channel, one at a time.&nbsp; Make a list of the handful that actually tune.&nbsp; Then delete the rest.&nbsp; Then you'll have to go through and watch the channels to figure out what channels they really are, because usually the channel information is also not included in the QAM broadcast.There is also a script that has been posted that will automate this one-by-one process for you.<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-talk-45/script-help-delete-scrambled-clearqam-channels-48106/#post326295" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-talk-45/script-help-delete-scrambled-clearqam-channels-48106/#post326295</a>And don't even get me started on getting EPG data for those channels.&nbsp; If you have a subscription to Schedules Direct see post #397 here:<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/plugins-47/schedules-direct-us-canadian-mexico-epg-plugin-updated-10-01-2007-a-26951/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/plugins-47/schedules-direct-us-canadian-mexico-epg-plugin-updated-10-01-2007-a-26951/</a>/milhouse</blockquote>

[QUOTE="milhouse, post: 495902, member: 26653"] In the U.S., the FCC mandates that over the air digital broadcasts need to be made available over QAM (unscrambled) by the cable companies. But they forgot to mentioned it should also be easy and follow standards. So in most markets, QAM is a mess. The virtual channel (major/minor) MAY be broadcast correctly, or it may not. It is quite common for your digital television to list a channel as 22.1 but major/minor is actually broadcast as 0.0 as seen by mediaportal. And, as you mentioned, they can move them around at will, and you have to do it all over again. As you noticed, ALL channels show up in a channel scan, even if encrypted. A patch has been submitted for 1.1 that will help a lot, I think, in removing encrypted channels during the scan. [url]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/improvement-suggestions-46/remove-scrambled-channels-55119/[/url] Most of the detected channel are scrambled. So your best best is to go to the EPG and try to tune each channel, one at a time. Make a list of the handful that actually tune. Then delete the rest. Then you'll have to go through and watch the channels to figure out what channels they really are, because usually the channel information is also not included in the QAM broadcast. There is also a script that has been posted that will automate this one-by-one process for you. [url]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-talk-45/script-help-delete-scrambled-clearqam-channels-48106/#post326295[/url] And don't even get me started on getting EPG data for those channels. If you have a subscription to Schedules Direct see post #397 here: [url]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/plugins-47/schedules-direct-us-canadian-mexico-epg-plugin-updated-10-01-2007-a-26951/[/url] /milhouse [/QUOTE]

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