HDTV setup

I just bought a Westinghouse LCD HDTV. It's in the middle of the
scanning phase where it scans for all available channels. It scanned
the analog channels just fine but when it got to the digital channels
it stopped after scanning about 5 of them. The progress bar has been
frozen at 84% for almost two hours. I read where it can take a while
to scan all the digital channels but this is ridiculous. Is this
normal and if it is how long does it usually take to complete a scan?
I have Insight Cable.

Thanks

The ATSC (digital) channels come from an OTA signal. So unless you have an
antenna connection, you're not getting any digital signals to your TV.

Insight Cable outputs analog. The "HD" part will be carried from either
component or HDMI cable from cable box to TV.
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I just bought a Westinghouse LCD HDTV. It's in the middle of the
scanning phase where it scans for all available channels. It scanned
the analog channels just fine but when it got to the digital channels
it stopped after scanning about 5 of them. The progress bar has been
frozen at 84% for almost two hours. I read where it can take a while
to scan all the digital channels but this is ridiculous. Is this
normal and if it is how long does it usually take to complete a scan?
I have Insight Cable.

Thanks

wrote:
I just bought a Westinghouse LCD HDTV. It's in the middle of the
scanning phase where it scans for all available channels. It scanned
the analog channels just fine but when it got to the digital channels
it stopped after scanning about 5 of them. The progress bar has been
frozen at 84% for almost two hours. I read where it can take a while
to scan all the digital channels but this is ridiculous. Is this
normal and if it is how long does it usually take to complete a scan?
I have Insight Cable.

Thanks

Is there an option to scan for digital QAM cable versus broadcast
digital ATSC channels? If the TV is connected to the cable line, you
need to do a digital cable scan. If you want to get your local broadcast
TV stations, then you obviously need to connect the HDTV to the proper
antenna setup for your location & distance from the broadcast towers.

If the TV hangs up on a scan, stop it, turn the TV off, and try again.
A digital broadcast scan is shorter because it scans from channel 2 (VHF
2 to 13) to UHF 69. Digital & analog cable scans cover from channel 2 to
125 or 135 so they take longer. But I am not aware of any that take more
than 10 minutes or so.

Alan F

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I just bought a Westinghouse LCD HDTV. It's in the middle of the
scanning phase where it scans for all available channels. It scanned
the analog channels just fine but when it got to the digital channels
it stopped after scanning about 5 of them. The progress bar has been
frozen at 84% for almost two hours. I read where it can take a while
to scan all the digital channels but this is ridiculous. Is this
normal and if it is how long does it usually take to complete a scan?
I have Insight Cable.

If the set has a cable QAM tuner and your cable service provides any
clear QAM (unencrypted) digital stations, then go into the menu and set
the tuner to find those.

If it only has a ATSC digital tuner, then you will only pick those up
with an antenna.

Look at the specs for the set to see what sort of tuner it has.

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It was just a damaged cable. The cable leading from the DVD player to
the tv had apparently developed a short and the signal wasn't coming
through properly.