Posted by Wes Newell on 08/28/06 04:35

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:44:03 -0400, Freewheeling wrote:

> I'm getting the Cable TV "triple play", with phone, TV and internet.
> I've ordered two converter boxes for regular TV, but thought I'd give
> HDTV a try. So all I need is a tuner card? Can I get that with video,
> and kill two birds?

For regular cable, you don't want or need cable boxes for clear QAM. Just
plug the cablke from the cable company into a QAM capable tuner card. you
can get all cable channels except the encrypted ones. For those, and
HD, you need a cable box that has a firewire output and you'll need a
firewire input into the PC to record it. Since I've never had cable or
sat (and never intend to), that's about the extent of my knowledge on it.
If you just want OTA HDTV, all you need is a $25 HDTV (ATSC) tuner card.
Your setup is going to be at least 10-20 times that.

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