How do you filter for HD content?

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I have an HDHomeRun Prime with Comcast and 400+ channels available in Plex but I don’t see a way to filter for HD content. There is a way to filter by type of channel such as watch now, sports, news but not quality. I tried doing this through an iOS device and on the Plex server with no luck.

In addition to this, there is no where in my settings to set a preference on HD channels which means every time I want to watch live TV, I have to scroll hundreds of channels to get to the HD section.

Am I missing something? I see in the recording settings that I can set a preference on HD but not for Live TV. There is also no easy way to understand which channel is HD and which is not. I know which channels are because they generally start in the 700’s and usually have HD in the channel name, however the name is cutoff in Plex as well. I’d love to see some sort of HD icon next to HD channels as well.

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in the advanced settings when going to record, you can tell it HD channels only and then even choose just the HD channel more specifically

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If you never want to see the SD Channels the easiest way is to uncheck them in the DVR setup
Settings -> Server -> DVR, then click on enabled channels to bring up the following screen. Then unselect all the SD Channels

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@hthighway said:
If you never want to see the SD Channels the easiest way to to uncheck them in the DVR setup
Settings -> Server -> DVR, then click on enabled channels to bring up the following screen. Then unselect all the SD Channels

while this is great and all, it is a little cumbersome to uncheck all the non HD channels. perhaps adding an option to select HD channels only can be added?

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Thanks for the responses, I am aware of those two tips but I guess my feedback is maybe to improve the user experience.

I don’t want to individually go to hundreds of SD channels and uncheck them. I was hoping for an easier way to filter or make transparent an HD channel. I have been using the advance recording setting to record HD shows but there isn’t a simple option to filter for HD for Live TV. There is as filter and sort button in iOS on the Watch Now screen, but they’re disabled, I can’t use them.

Comcast for instance has a filter on their TV box where I can filter only HD content.