Scree
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join:2001-04-24
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|  lol
Digital cable customers already have similar to this, plus it is digital quality (well, almost, anyway), and of course a simple hookup to a computer can "store" them just fine!
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odeonkreel
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| said by Scree  :
Digital cable customers already have similar to this, plus it is digital quality (well, almost, anyway), and of course a simple hookup to a computer can "store" them just fine!
[text was edited by author 2003-10-27 13:10:34]
Hmm. now that you mention it...I have a TV tuner card and digital cable hooked right into my pc at home...might have to start updating my collection with all the digital music channels I get and have hardly used 
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dewman99
join:2000-12-28
Palm Harbor, FL | reply to Scree
No big deal here allot of digital cable subscribers like myself allready have 200+ music channels frome cable TV.
Like Backitup said a Simple hookup to TV - PC is easy to store them. |
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Seandhi
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Just a question: How are you getting digital cable without a converter? I thought you had to have a digital cable box to convert the digital signal.
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joebear29
join:2003-07-20
Alabaster, AL
| said by Seandhi :
Just a question: How are you getting digital cable without a converter? I thought you had to have a digital cable box to convert the digital signal.
Uh, I assumed they hooked the cable to the box and the box to the PC. Am I wrong? |
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Seandhi
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| said by joebear29 :
Uh, I assumed they hooked the cable to the box and the box to the PC. Am I wrong?
Well I guess I didn't see where he had said that he hooked it up to a cable box, but let me read it again...
said by Scree :
Hmm. now that you mention it...I have a TV tuner card and digital cable hooked right into my pc at home...might have to start updating my collection with all the digital music channels I get and have hardly used
... Nope, still not there 
I guess we could assume, but we know what that will do. I asked the question because I would like to know if there is a way to receive digital signal without leasing another box from Time Warner, so if somebody could answer that question...
Thanks.
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joebear29
join:2003-07-20
Alabaster, AL
| Well, from reading other threads in the CATV forum, I was under the impression it was impossible to hook digital cable or satellite directly into one's computer without a box, hence the assumption that it went into the box first.
But, as you suggest, it will be best to wait for the original poster to clarify the matter, as I have been mistaken in the past, and am a true believer in the theory that past performance is an indication of future results. |
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Seandhi
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| I am pretty sure that you need a converter, but the poster said that he had it hooked 'right into' his computer. I thought that this meant straight from the wall to the tuner card, and his tuner card was acting as the converter.
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odeonkreel
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said by joebear29 :
said by Seandhi :
Just a question: How are you getting digital cable without a converter? I thought you had to have a digital cable box to convert the digital signal.
Uh, I assumed they hooked the cable to the box and the box to the PC. Am I wrong?
That is correct. Cable goes to the box, then to the TV tuner card. That way I get all 200+ channels in digital format.
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Oshi
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No experience with Digital Cable, but I assume it's coax going from the cable box to the PC. Simple solution, get a $2 coax Y splitter and hook both TV and PC on one box
...well, I guess you'd have to watch the same thing on the PC and TV at the same time, but it'd still work, right?  |
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roamer1
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said by joebear29 :
Uh, I assumed they hooked the cable to the box and the box to the PC. Am I wrong?
I have a DirecTV receiver dedicated to my computer, for both TV and music:
Dish -> Multiswitch -> Receiver -> audio + S-video cables to TV tuner card (not actually used as a tuner, just a NTSC interface), and another set of audio cables to a switch box so I can listen to Music Choice without loading the WinTV app on my PC
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Master5c8
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I've actually no experience using them, but I know you can buy digital cable pc tuner/converter cards. Hauppage makes one, check out their website »www.hauppauge.com , though the MSRP is apparently ~$200. |
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TheHelpful1
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Upper Marlboro, MD | reply to Scree
Bring on the SFF PC's! |
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