Why is rescanning so important?

After hooking up a converter box to your TV set, or installing a new digital television, you will need to scan (also known as “auto-tune”) for new channels to ensure you receive all of the digital stations broadcasting in your area. While some boxes do this automatically, you may need to select scan manually.

Since some digital stations are still coming on air, you may want to consider rescanning on a periodic basis to get all of the digital programming available.

Because some digital stations that are already on air are moving to different channel numbers at the end of DTV transition, you may need to rescan again after February 17, 2009 to ensure that you receive all of the digital stations broadcasting in your area.

You may download our rescanning tips sheet.