Hi, After seeing this forum, I decided to take advantage of TVOIP but I am having trouble getting it to work.
Here's what I have done: I remembered I had a card from about 5-7 years ago that we used to hook up to the network. I salvaged the parts from my old computers as I disposed of them.
I hooked this card into my recent-aged Dell PC running Windows Vista (latest service pack and all updates/antivirus). I then proceeded to hook up the cable into the card. It took a bit of mustering as the connector didn't want to fit snug... I made due and plan to goto RadioShack to redo the connector. Anyways, I doubt this is the cause of the problem as the coax is inserted into my computer card.
My problem is that: I can't get any TV stations to load on my computer. I tried Windows Media Player and nothing was appearing in the library, so I decided to download iTunes (I don't have any Apple products). iTunes couldn't load the TV stations either -- it wanted me to buy single TV shows. I found this odd because I do have an active Time Warner cable TV account (digital TV with one of those recorders).
Has anyone else experience a similar problem with TVOIP and Time Warner?
Re: iTunes is not a media center / digital tuner software, it's a store where you purchase tv shows and movies that you download in a file to watch.
If it's really digital cable from Time Warnter then you most likely have two problems: 1) the signal is in QAM format and any card more than 2 years old isn't like to be / have a QAM tuner and 2) it's possible that the digital signal is encrypted.
You'd really be better asking about this in the »Time Warner Cable TV/Voice forum since this is really about TV over the Internet and not TV tuners in computers from cable companies
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