How To Run a Channel Scan or Auto Program a Samsung Smart TV
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video I show how to run a channel scan on a Samsung Smart TV if you're using a TV antenna to pick up free local channels over the air. I also provide information on how to rescan or auto program a different TV model if you own an LG, Vizo, Sony, Dynex, Sharp, TCL, or other popular TV band.
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Thank you! We were finally able to figure this out thanks to your video! We got over 50 channels. I haven’t watched over air TV in years. It’s so nice. Thanks again!
I have spent the last few hours trying to figure out channels on my tv and just searched on youtube for help and I found this video,. It took less than 2 mins to find channels. Thank you for sharing this!!
Thanks! This was so helpful! I almost brought the antenna back thinking it didn’t work.
Thanks this was so helpful , you ROCK !
Big big thanks..Got used Element tv. Really appreciate the help. Sharing 85° sunny FL weather with you as thank you!!
Thank you, seriously the only one on here I’ve found with my remote and didn’t make me want to throw my tv out the window. Only thing that would make this video better would be a badgers shirt. :)
Even though I do not have a Samsung Smart TV, it is still informative. I cannot believe people dislike a video. Tyler spends hours just to give us free OTA info and some people reject it. Shame on them.
Difficult to understand how and why anyone would dislike his videos. People are sometimes thoughtless.
Fred Pinnix my thoughts exactly.
Most tv manufacturers need to dump the cable option because it confuses some people and most if not all you got to have a settop cable box anyway
Yeah some people don't get it. It takes me between 3-6 hours to make each video.
@@AntennaMan
What is...interesting (?) is that the viewed by and like numbers are never very close, indicating that many people forget to hit that like button. Yet...folks manage to remember (?) / manage to hit that dislike button. I suspect dislikes are just people being contrarian.
Another great review
Thank you so much. I watched so many useless videos and watching this I had it set up in seconds. Your the best. I was so frustrated. Still a relevant video
Simple and to.the point! Thank you!
Cool thanks for the help video tutorial.👍👍👍
Thank you!! We were stuck for a while 😊
This was very helpful thank you 😊
Thank you so much!! It worked great!!
Perfect video!! Great resource
Thank you for this video. Big help.
I have 2 Samsung tvs, one was given to me and is maybe 10+ years old while the other I bought last year but have only turned on once or twice to see if it worked as it was bought on sale at an outlet that I had problems with in the past.
To say that this, and other videos have been a help and very informative would be an understatement. One of these days I will get a new antenna so I can watch tv after 11:30 pm. For some reason (I am in a fringe area?) the signals get too weak for capture around 11:30-12:45.
Thx! This was very easy instructions! 👍🏽
Thanks this was very helpful
You’re very video worked perfectly and I was successful in scanning and setting up my new antenna, thank you!!!👍👍
Thank you so much 😭 it was getting so irritating trying to figure out how to run the channels. I don’t care for cable, as long as the antenna picks up the local channels.
Amazing! Thank you
Thank you. I was afraid to go one step further until i watched this. Piece of mind for my wife when the satellite reception goes out
Thank you!
Good job 👏
Excellent Thank You
Thanks for your help 👍🏼
About to do this, thanks Ty
You are a hero... Thank you sooo much...
you are the man..thank you
Thank you 🙏
Thanks!
Thanks, that worked!
I bought an HDTV antenna to access local channels since I don’t have cable, mostly use streaming services. I plugged it in and pulled up the settings menu, but for some reason the broadcasting option where the channel scan is located says unavailable. The tv plus has plenty of channels, but it won’t let me do a scar to access local channels with the antenna
Thank you so much.
Samsung TV plus is screwing me up.
I bought a cheap battery operated 14 inch Tv and scanned and adjusted rabbit ears many times before I took delivery of my 75 inch LG NANO. I just switched the antenna to the LG (after I established the rabbit ears were in the best position for reception). I can also use the 14 inch for many other things and its really cheap for all you get.
Omgoodness thank you thank you super awesome 👌🏾 info and so easy did the trick appreciate 👍🏿 you😊
Thanks man
Yassssss thank you so muchhhhhh
Super simple and helpful
I appreciate you watching this video! Glad to have helped :)
I have a spectrum cable box but I want to use an antenna too, can you run the scanner in air mode without using cable mode if you have a cable box?
you'e the best
I am waiting on your reviews on the Blake TV Antennas.
I recently bought the Samsung 55in Smart TV. I found it the channel scan after some playing around. What was really hard was finding the signal meter. It's in the Diagnostics screen which I was afraid to even attempt to go into!
You are Amazing thank you sooo much!!!!! it worked!!!!!!!!
So does the channels get added to the Samsung Plus line up?
The exact method may vary according to the make of the TV. Many will also autoscan when first plugged in and turned on.
I never seen a TV Auto scan, interesting. What brand does that ?
Thank you for the video. Can do a video on signal strength vs signal quality. I just got my antenna professionally installed. By signal strength is 100% but signal quality bonces around. I get picture most of the time but break up.
Thank you
Got to find a way to detune some of that bring that RF input down. You have too much power coming in at you. Imagine a garden hose. Squeeze the handle on the nozzle until it shoots the straight line. Now open it even further until you can't squeeze any further. That's basically what it's like. You're getting more output from the signal or more input to your television, but it's splattered. That's exactly the way radio waves operate they call it harmonics. Bad harmonics.
Thanks for your help. This is NOT common knowledge for everyone.
I have an older samsung tv. probably from around 2013 or so. i am running two antennas to pick up stations in different directions with an a/b switch to change the input from one to the other. Is there a way to manually enter and save stations?. The problem (really just a minor hastle) I have currently is I have to run a scan every time i switch from one antenna to the other and the stations from the other antenna are erased. appreciate any advse
My Sceptre 40 inch has a very good ATSC tuner.. Super sensitive!
I have that tv but a different remote. If you want to check signal strength go down the menu to Support and then over to signal strength.
where do you hook up the cable to the back of the samsung 7 ?
Everything is the same for the setup for me but the broadcasting isn’t lit up so I can’t click on it. Any suggestions?
If Broadcasting is Greyed out. It means you have an application open, example tv guide. Close it and you will see Broadcasting is no longer greyed out.
So will you loose all the Samsung pluss TV channels? Or will they still be there?
The Cable option is usually useless. Most cable company's you will need a proprietary box to get there channels now! But how I get my internet I can scan in 2 channels. The local Community channel and the PPV preview channel! But the over the air stuff is just as good as a Basic Cable package if you live in a area with lots of the Diginets!
Our university campus cable is unencrypted and would work in that instance.
I have a tcl ruku tv and that one scans both antenna and cable you don't have the option to scan just antenna unless you cancel it before it starts scanning the cable channels
Thanks I Have Samsung Smart TV 7 Series
So when you say that the channels that picked up by the scan will be stored on your TV? Where ate they stored? We use Roku and I don't see them in the list channels...Thank You for your help!~
Just a suggestion, but on my Samsung TV's after I do the auto program I like to go into the support, self diagnosis, and then signal information to see what kind of signal I am getting. I noticed that once the signal drops below 15 SNR I lose the station.
Great suggestion! Your comment is pinned to my video.
I believe 15.2 dB is needed for ATSC 1.0. This is my go-to feature to find how good the signal is on Samsung TVs. To me, signal to noise ratio is better than a percentage bar and I wish that more TV manufacturers would include it.
Anything under 20 and there is breakup and random pixelization on ours...
i do that too.
Samsung TVs if connected to a internet connection have many free extra channels also TH-cam and Funimation Pluto tv and more
Those are the SmartTVs. Many older SmartTVs don't have all the options the newer ones have.
Only issue with the free channels is they have even more commercials than local over the air TV.
@@frommatorav1 yes but they often play shows/movies you won't find OTA. Decent tradeoff for free I think
Mabe with atsc3.0 broadcast internet these free internet channels will really be free if we have the option of free internet or pay internet over the air.
Have a Samsung TV i get some channels one direction have to turn antenna for other station Question? Is their anyway i can store channels without loosing them when i turn antenna and rescan?
See video below. th-cam.com/video/YDQzvFG3chs/w-d-xo.html
My moms TV is a Samsung Smart TV and she has a Spectrum cable box. If Spectrum is down, she wants to have an antenna backup. Can I do a channel scan (Air), then easily go back to the cable box once scanned in?
What to do, auto program, on my Samsung smart tv UN55MU6290 states this function is not available!
Help please, I do have a RCA amplified indoor HDTV antenna.
I'm confused why the scanner has a cable mode scanner on TV source while adding antenna channels when a cable box runs on the hdmi source not the TV source?
Can someone clear up my confusion?
Hey Tyler do you have a video comparing the sensitivity of OTA tuners of different TVs? Thanks!
I have a video on the topic but don't have a side by side comparison of hundreds of tv models. That's just not feasible to do.
Would like to see a comparison of the electronic programming guides of todays' tv's. TCL, Samsung, LG, Vizio. The guide feature will help determine which tv brand I buy. Most tv reviewers only focus on the streaming aspect of a tv and ignore the over the air functionality. While I do stream, ota tv is really important.
As far as accessing the channels every time we turn on our TV, do we have to repeat this process or are the local channels stored somewhere after we run the scan?
They should be stored on your TV after the initial scan. You shouldn't have to rescan unless a channel moves frequencies
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When I go to my settings and then see broadcast it’s lightened up so that I can’t access it. Do you know how to fix this so I can scan channels?
1:48 Must of been a Thursday when you recorded this video. Monk is on H&I.
I think it was a Thursday.
Tyler. With this particular Samsung smart tv, you should also talk about the free streaming channels that come with it. For instance, if you already have internet wifi and did a channel scan, the way you showed here in this video clip, along with the OTA channels would be tons of additional channels that are totally free called Samsung TV Plus. I don't think you've ever touched upon this revelation in all of the videos you've posted. Perhaps you can do a followup video to this one showing the Samsung TV Plus streaming channels you will get. I think mine turned up 127 total extra channels however don't hold me to that particular number. Two of those channels broadcast in 4K.
The Samsung TV streaming channels should be common knowledge. I don't own this TV so I won't be making a follow up video.
@@AntennaMan Okay. Thanks for the quick reply.
How do you tell the difference (on screen artifacts) between interference from LTE (or any interference for that matter) vs low signal strength? Also, what is a good forum to discuss these things? I'm looking to chat with other like minded folks.
See video below: th-cam.com/video/B87GMPdKZ5E/w-d-xo.html
@@AntennaMan Spot on, thank you :)
I have Samsung un50nu6900 was using HD antenna ,working fine about 40 channels typically available to me until one night it just went out now the TV wont even see any channel besides pbs. I reset the TV, unplugged it,scanned numerous times...is it the tvs tunner im stumped
There's no such thing as an HD antenna. You likely have a junk antenna that broke. Get a better antenna.
Antenna Man, this happened recently. I performed a rescan and got two of the same channel. The channel was CITYTV in Toronto and the virtual numbers were 57-1 and 18-1. But, 18-1 was a test channel with a full signal and 57-1 had the same poor signal. After the FCC Repack, will channel 18-1 become the new CITYTV or will channel 18-1 merge into 57-1?
I get the same channel. I receive all Toronto broadcasts in Buffalo NY and saw it when I did a new rescan as well. To my knowledge, they will be keeping the virtual as 57.1 and using rf 18 after the repack. I saw the same thing happen to Omni 1 and Omni 2 as well.
Brickport Thank you.
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I can’t change channels - optimum cable box- with my new tv remote it’s driving me crazy!! Any ideas??
Do I have to scan channels every single time to watch tv on my Samsung tv???, (which I think is a weak tuner) is this normal now . It picks up and later looses channel.
Thank you, I tried looking in the manual and found nothing. Great video
I have a tv that adds channels automatically it would help if all the relayed tv devises and TV's would work that way if you could send out a email to the manufacturers that might work
What is the best indoor antenna?
This is one of the best indoor antennas: bit.ly/2W92bEB
ok did a scan last night on my samsung first scan I got many channels but missing some locals from same broadcasting area did another scan after moving antenna now I cant get anything to come up after repeated scans and antenna movements a very cheap antenna but it was working but not anymore
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there's two options on scanning for channels: DTV AIR and AIR ? what's the difference?
Air is in analog. You want DTV air.
WE ARE!
And don't forget to re-scan every now and then! If you loose channels they may have moved and sometimes new channels are added.
The auto program option is greyed out and says this function is unavailable do I need to change a setting?
why we need to do auto scan
My remote has no settings button pushed every button nothing so frustrating
Why do I never get 11 and 9 ? I'm in so cal.
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no, my new samsung tv says autoscan function is NOT AVAILABLE
my brodcasting option is greyed out
The broadcast button is locked it won't allow me to scan the channels
my auto program is greyed out and will not let me scan
My tv wont let me access the section in broadcasting to scan
You might not have a built in TV tuner on your TV then. If you still can't find it you can always hook in this external tuner via HDMI: amzn.to/3aFgSHY
I like the lg. What gets me on the channel scan with cable on a Samsung, channels are normal 2,3,4,5.. etc. my lg however does the 17-1,17-2,18-1, etc. hate the discrepancy between the two brands. Though I’m now a happy cord cutter, in Hagerstown Md, our channel selection stinks.
I have a friend in Hagerstown. There's not much there over the air unless you have a large outdoor antenna for DC.
Antenna Man I need to find the power supply for my antenna master preamp under the antenna. I seem to remember picking up the dc channels with my bow tie. Though I now have a dual bow tie. 🤓 not sure I want to hang a 6 foot yagi on my roof. Thanks for a great job on your channel.
Hi!
My tv is silo
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i have this tv if the channel scan is whited out and you can't choose to scan channels simply turn tv off for few seconds and then on again. :D then go back to the channels scan menu you will see its now black and you are able to do a channel scan. if you want to find how strong your sinnal is and if it locked go to support then signal information. now you can go through all our programed channels with channel button and see how strong your signal is by viewing the number of blue bars.