Computing

Silver lining to the Comcast DTA

While the merits of Comcast's Digital Transport Adapters are debatable, there is one useful side effect to their existance.  Because the are so cheap, they lack a POD tuner.  This means that the channel tables are broadcast in-band, which in turn means that a normal QAM tuner can find them.  There is a tool called scte65scan that can find these tables using a regular DVB tuner (it also supports the HDHomerun).