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MW,
Your VCR probably only has an ATSC tuner for over-the-air and a NTSC tuner for the now-gone cable world giving you the 2-19 world. Cable clear channels are QAM which is probably in your set tuner along with the NTSC/ATSC tuner when you bypass the VCR giving you the upper channels. VCR tuner fair, set tuner better. And the added few analog channels still sent by cable will appear.
My Phila Comcast system is mostly digital but the locals are still analog and QAM HD, including sub-channels, (very good compared to what a digi box does to the signal in pure digital) and a bunch of useless other channels in NTSC. I do get a bunch of music channels though. All this on a Sony XBR960 HD glass set with the NTSC/ATSC and clear-QAM tuner via the basic Comcast delivery to that set.
All that said, I have the Comcast mini-box on my other two relics. They do look ok but the audio is low on both.
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