I hope the blind scan is an improvement over the 6000. Aside from the blind scan procedure I love my 6000. Instead of scanning for the TPs then sanning again for the channel I wish it would scan the TP, then the channel then move on to the next TP and channel like the 3500. I was disappointed at first because the reason I bought the 6000 was that I thought the format would be almost the same as the 3500 only adding HD and H264.