At some point Charter will upgrade you to a plant that uses HSC's, which are more robust. Their schedule continues to shift forward, but maybe, this time, it will eventually happen before EOY 2027 (your location could be at the beginning or end of that period, but Charter does not share ...

This whole process of regularly troubleshooting missing channels and such, is a real PIA.


Actually, all the operators agree with you, and they are all in various stages of eliminating Linear QAM (and that includes CableCARD support) and replacing their TV service with IPTV distribution ...

Spectrum says their only other option is to send out a tech, which I think is BS. But it is what it is.


Depends on the root cause, and there is little to no ability to check on the causes remotely (so they sometimes need boots in the home). TA's use a reverse band that is *extremely* noisy ...

I remember back in the day, like most everyone here, getting a couple of $40 coupons to buy a couple of Zenith converter boxes which had a very sensitive tuner. I still have both boxes too. LOL.
In today's money, the FCC should now give up a $200 coupon for a STB. ;)


Such converter boxes have ...

https://cordcuttersnews.com/the-fcc-will-allow-abc-cbs-fox-nbc-tv-stations-to-shutdown-free-atsc-1-0-switch-to-atsc-3-0-only/

That post is bullshit and Luke Bouma should be embarrassed. Absolutely nothing changed because of the FCC's public notice. It was literally just a restatement of all ...

nickk wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 6:28 pm

techpro2004 wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 6:13 pm Does this mean drm support will be released soon? thanks.

ATSC org doesn't make the rules for DRM.

But you at least get a voice at the ATSC table. Which can only be a positive.

very odd. 5 min ago I was getting 98 channels now it shows 83. I guess I have to invest in a lte/5g filter. which one is best for low-vhf. thanks.

fyi with the old antenna I was getting 120 channels.


EDIT: Looking at the specs for that antenna, it appears to have a preamp which already has a ...

That is correct. Matching is via public IP address and we don't know the public IPv4 address of a tuner that connects to our servers using IPv6.

Perhaps IPv6 capable devices (if they also have an IPv4 address) should also attempt to contact the servers via IPv4 to add those devices to the ...

Yes, I know SD recommends against using cloud based discovery (and I mostly don't use is, but I do offer it as an option for one of my apps). But I have observed a couple of what I consider to be anomalies (errors) in the results.

First, if one uses the IPv4 endpoint, or the default endpoint, which ...

The detailed dBmV / dB values are present within the current OTA tuners, they are just disabled unless you have a DEV unit. I upgraded to DEV units awhile back, it has helped me optimize my antennas immensely.


Well, then, maybe the TECH3-CC supports those additional values (nickk?)? If not, at ...

When I view the tuner status webpage for my Primes, signal strength in dBmV and signal quality in dB are displayed alongside the percentage equivalents. However, when I send a status.json request for the tuner, only the percentages are returned. Is it possible for the firmware to be enhanced to ...

Any ideas?


There are many possible issues. A few common WAGs include that a tuner "disappearing" can sometimes be due to a bad power supply, or a bad network connection. Check to see if the led's look correct. If you have a compatible power adapter, try that. If you have alternative network ...

Not to mention notch filters aren't perfect, something blocking out San Antonio's KNIC-DT on RF 18 will likely affect Austin's KGBS-CD on RF 19.


Extremely tight notch filters do exist (and have been used for commercial TV distribution systems). When I looked a decade or two ago they were in the ...

This isn't the first time this problem has surfaced on these forums.


Correct. And while various thoughts, ideas, and proposals, have been offered by the community over the years to provide owners of the tuners additional options, you are, for now, going to have to think outside the HDHR box for ...

If you could build a notch or band-stop filter[1] to knock down RF 18 that should stop it.


A single channel notch filter tends to be rather expensive commercially (if you can filter a larger band, rather than just one channel, it can end up cheaper). Building it yourself is always a possibility ...