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John Pullan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A full frequency scan would be harsh, as we have (top of my head) 50
> channels in the UK, with a potential of 3 sub channels at say 5 seconds
> per channel. Gives 50*3*5 = 750 seconds.
It's 21-69 isn't it, which is 49 channels, but close enough.
The old ONDigital boxes did use to warn that it might take 20 minutes
to do the scan although it never did.
> I wish I knew how STB's really did this kind of stuff. I suspect that
> because it's propriety hardware they can do more stuff. or maybe we just
> need a better mechanism for detecting lack of lock in the scan case.
Well given that the UK muxes transmit a network table you only have
to find one frequency by scanning and you can then locate the others
using the network table so maybe they do that?
Tom
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