Sony KD34XBR960 - CRT HD set questions

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

Sony sets with both NTSC and ASTC tuners waste alot of the lengthy autoprogram time looking for OTA analog...first. Analog is fully extinct here.

Sonys aren't the only sets which do that. My Insignia flat screen, as well as most if not all modern TVs with ATSC digital tuners, does it too. I wish it didn't; every time I rescan my set I have to go through every one of the analog broadcast channels and remove them from the scan list.

Fortunately, I don't have to rescan very often; the set retains my channel list even after short power outages. Good thing, too, as I have the channel scan set for my favorite channels on Time Warner Cable. It is a time-consuming task to go through the entire scan list (probably over 60 channels, including several in the 100s range and some blank ones in the 80s-90s) and uncheck the stations I don't care to watch, including the ones that are now carried in digital only. The latter channels now only show a screen that says "Get your TV picture back. . . .", along with a photo of the small converter box now needed (and charged extra for on your cable bill) to receive the digital channels on older TVs.