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Great response. It's starting to make sense! Thanks again. BobC

Stephen - Good information, thanks. What does PSIP stand for? Does it get transmitted in each physical channel #? (That is, channel & subchannel) Is its function to map a cable company channel #? (e.g. 843) to a physical channel # (e.g. 62-1). And since cablecards and STBs use the 3 or 4...

Stephen, Scott - Thanks for your responses. The whole channel numbering business is a little confusing to me. My local HD channel 4 is tuned by entering 4-1 on the Samsung. But on the TiVo it's 804. I imagine that somehow both these designations end up at the same frequency. I have read that...

Gang - My Samsung LN40A550 has a QAM tuner and I'm able to tune the network channels in HD by entering 4-1 or 5-1 or 7-1. I believe that Comcast does not scramble their HD channels such as ESPN-HD. Should I be able to tune them directly? When I enter 849 (the channel # that Comcast uses for...

Someone reminded me that it might have been someone at Samsung who mistakenly provided the erroneous information. If so, then I'm sure there is a job opening there!

Gang - I have a love-hate relationship with Consumer Reports. On the one hand if you don't know much about a product it's not a bad place to start but on the other they sure seem like a bunch of whiners and little old ladies. Having said that and given that I don't own an HDTV (yet) I do...