VHF station not found

[SoNic67]

Any ideas why ONE station won't come in the scanning the OTA channels?
I have two SiliconDust tuners and with their apps, I can see all the channels, I can play channel 13.1-13.5, but the WMC doesn't find the ABC Chanel 13.1-13.5 (physical channel 11 VHF).

[stuartm]

See my answer over in the Silicon Dust forum.

[SoNic67]

Thanks! I could add them manually. Still don't know why they won't be added automatically...

[garyan2]

If you're using Win7, then you will have to add those channels manually. 7MC does not scan the VHF channels.

https://garyan2.github.io/addchannels.html

[SoNic67]

That's so stupid!
Now I see I am missing others, but that is a religions channel so I didn't noticed by now.
Just switched from cable to OTA so I am new to this.
Thanks!

PS: That's right there with DisplayPort not being recognized as HDCP capable.

[stuartm]

Pretty much all the result of Microsoft disbanding the WMC programming team before things like DisplayPort and OTA digital still using VHS channels could be addressed.

[SoNic67]

Thank you everyone! Wife is happy now

[Space]

Pretty much all the result of Microsoft disbanding the WMC programming team before things like DisplayPort and OTA digital still using VHF channels could be addressed.

Yeah, I think originally all digital TV was going to be allocated to the UHF band, but that later changed for some reason (I think due to interference issues once real-life testing was done)

VHF was going to be reallocated to other services such as cell phone and wireless broadband services.

I think in most regions this did happen, but in some, some of the VHF frequencies were still allocated for use by digital TV.