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Originally Posted by SuperD

It’s because the Seiki has an analog tuner and the Samsung has a digital tuner and picks up channels like 22, 22-1, 22-2, and so on. An analog tuner just can’t get those other channels.

An analog TV tuner in the US today will pick up nothing... All TV stations are now digital whether a base number (22) or extra channels (22.1, 22.2)...
An ATSC Digital tuner is needed to receive over the air digital.
My TVs have both analog and digital ATSC tuners.. And during a channel scan set to 'air' the analog scan finds nothing as expected.

Perhaps it is better electronics in Samsung.. able to receive and process weaker signals.. Don't know, but they are both 'digital' to receive anything over the air today.

The QAM tuner is the digital cable version of the ATSC over the air tuner which the older Seiki TVs and many others didn't have... Which made it incompatible with digital cable systems like those at Ft Wilderness.