![]() And since the passthrough doesn't work if the power is on with the 130 (I understand it has a setting that you can do pass trhough even when turned on with the 150), it means both my other TV's in the house dont get any channels when that happens, requiring a walk upstairs to turn off the STB. I'd much rather spring the extra bucks for the new one to see if the latest version yields any improvements. I just try to remember that.Ĭlick to expand.I am already on my second 130 and its on its last legs. Tyler's audience is someone who isn't curious enough to be on this forum who just wants to put up an antenna and have their TV channels working with no fuss. I've wanted to dig into the actual metrics, understanding the different dB measurements and what they mean, how to understand what is meant by SNR, dbVm, dBm etc etc, but I'm a liiiiittle bit more interested than most. It's probably other factors like weather rather than any antenna difference most of the time. I'm not going to be as definitive as he is with "this antenna got a better signal than the last one I tested" when the variance is like 4%. I think he's good if you take it for who it is intended.īut the fact he does antenna reviews and uses the mediasonic signal percentage to do his comparisons means that I really don't take them too seriously because I know my fringe signals vary easily 10-15% from day to day and hour to hour where I live when measured with the homeworx signal meter. His ranting and raving about cheap Amazon promoted antennas with bogus range claims and thousands of fake reviews, and constant re-explanation of basics like virtual vs actual channel is funny. People just seem to think OTA died with analog. I know anecdotally when I tell people you can get the main 4 Canadian networks in a paper clip if you live in Toronto and with a $50 yagi or 2 bay you can probably get 18 channels reliably. The comment about how mediasonic probably have a trove of returned units because of things that have nothing to do with the tuner kind of speaks to the lack of knowledge and sophistication with regard to OTA. He makes antenna tv accessible to the masses who aren't going to dive into this as a hobby and just need a surface level. ![]() I like Tyler because he's able to explain things in a simple every man kind of way. Other systems may produce different results.Click to expand.I think you hit the nail on the head exactly here. On my system, I only have nine physical channel number I have to enter. It's not as bad as it sounds once you know those numbers. If you don't know your physical channel numbers your MSO uses for your unencrypted stations, either try to get them from them (it will take a few phone calls) or try your local reception thread and ask there. There will still be sub-channels that will have to be skipped due to being encrypted or SD duplicates of the HD channel (if your MSO duplicates the SD version which shouldn't be necessary anymore).Ħ. (This was the way iViews firmware was until it was corrected.)ĥ. If your MSO does use the OTA virtual number it will not show. Only the physical channel numbers will be shown. Also, entering the physical channel number is very sluggish (slow to respond).Ĥ. If you don't you probably won't get any results. When you advance to the next channel, you must wait a few second for the 'progress' bar to respond before you hit enter. What makes it annoying is after each "save", the menu closes forcing you to re-enter it for each additional physical channel number (one of the complaints I have have with iView).ģ. ![]() Only do a manual channel add, one physical channel number at a time. Encrypted channels (sub channels) will NOT be skipped!Ģ. 1, Do NOT do a channel scan (unless you want to manually "skip" a hundred or so channels). ![]()
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