A question about over the air HDTV?

Question:

I just got my first HDTV last night and I bought he antenna to get the channels over the air. When I did an autoscan it scanned and found over 200 HD channels, but if I go through them, only a few are really channels. What are these other channels?

Answer:
Many of them could be sub channels, or prehaps you are recieving both analog and digital channels... I assume your antenna is UHF...

If the picture is snowy on these other channels, they're not really digital channels... With digital channels, you either get the signal or you don't, there's no in between. So, if the other channels you're seeing are snowy, it's nothing. Plus, if you're using an antenna to scan for digital channels, you should have no more than 60-something channels. Over the air channels don't go that high. Your TV might think that it's scanning an analog cable line, not an OTA antenna.

If you want good HD programming, I recommend getting DISH Network. They have the biggest selection of HD channels.

All of those are not digital HD channels. When you did the scan the TV scanned for channels that it was able to get a signal from. So those are all the channels you can get. HD and analog.

A question about over the air HDTV?

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