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DocLotus

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What Does TV Signal Strength Numbers Mean?
« on: December 19, 2016, 04:25:36 pm »

The numbers are all over the place... -10000, 10000, & anywhere in between.

I have no idea what they mean.

Can we have a simple signal strength number system such... 0-100%?
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mojave

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Re: What Does TV Signal Strength Numbers Mean?
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2016, 04:44:22 pm »

JRiver doesn't generate those numbers (how would they know?). Those numbers come from your OTA tuner and are passed on to JRiver.

I use the HDHomerun and get signal strength from 0-100%.
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Re: What Does TV Signal Strength Numbers Mean?
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2016, 07:44:08 pm »

Thanks, Mojave.

But... as I recall, MSMC in Win 8 did show signal strength as 0-100% so why can't MC?

Also... If HDHomerun can do again why not MC?

As I recall. MC did at one time report signal strength as 0-100 a long time ago (maybe as far back version 17 or so).

I would just like some useful numbers, it would help me when tuner cards sometimes fail to open a TV channel. Knowing signal strength (in useful numbers) would help eliminate signal strength as the source of a channel that refuses to load.
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