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Win 7 MC not happy with HDHR QAM
I was pleased when I saw that Windows 7 beta (build 7000) would have native QAM support. So I went ahead and installed it on my wife's HTPC, with her permission, of course. She has an HDHomeRun dual-tuner QAM box along with a Hauppauge 950 analog tuner stick. I had no problem installing the 950 and HDHR drivers and tools. I performed a scan with the HDHR Setup tool and got over 50 QAM channels. Of useful ones, about 12 are HD, and a few more are SD. I'm really only interested in the HD channels. The HDHR Setup tool properly identified all of the channels I cared about.
When I ran the MC setup, it properly recognized I had the HDHR with two QAM tuners and the 950 analog stick with one. I selected the appropriate cable service for the line up and the scan proceeded. It found all of the analog stuff, of course, and as been reported elsewhere, none of the QAM. This most recent MC is "improved". When you Edit Channels, you do not see all that were found in the QAM scan, but disabled. You only see the channels it could see and completely identify. So I could not simply clean up and enable the 12 QAM channels I know are there. I was left with using the Add Channels to the QAM line up. Unfortunately, I would need to know their channel numbers in the standard xx.x format (ex: 58.4). I have no clue where to find that out. The ZAP2IT web site only shows the channel numbers the way Time Warner likes to see them, not the way a QAM TV would see them.
So, how do I add in the QAM channels I know are there? Where can I find the guide channel numbers in the xx.x format?
Bye.