Cable Descrambler for TV tuner cards?

[theNEOone]

are there any software descramblers out there? i know that the illegal cable boxes are just hardware, but maybe there's some software out there that can send instructions to my processor. i'm sure the hardware i have is plenty powerful.......i know nothing about cable scramblers, so i might be wayyyyyyyyyyyy off here.

 

[Slapstick]

This isn't the best place to ask such a question but since the answer is no for NTSC I see no harm in answering. I've seen a few for PAL but since your in New York that wont do you any good.

 

[geckojohn]

That would be cool to have a cable descrambler for your tv tuner card.. Any ideas??

 

[geckojohn]

Any ideas people????

 

[spanky]

i've seen them all over the place (on the net), but i dunno if they work. it would be quite interesting to know tho...

 

[gunf1ghter]

this thread is just waiting for a lock

 

[telstar1]

Ah, what this guy is trying to do isn't necessarily illegal. I've got cable in NYC, and my cable-box goes into my TV. I split the signal before it goes into the cable-box so that I can send a line into my Radeon AIW card.

The problem is that if I split the signal after I run it through the cable-box, I can only watch the channel controlled by the cable-box. If I split the signal before the cable-box, like I'm doing, then I can't watch most of the channels, including the ones that I'm paying for.

This makes it impossible to take advantage of the DVR-functions that ATI's AIW Radeon includes for anything other than a network TV station, and it kinda sucks.

So while the motivation for most people may be to avoid paying for p0rn0 or some movie channels ... this is a legitimate problem for some people. There's enough p0rn0 on Morpheus as it is.

Telstar

 

[Diable]

Why not split the line coming out of your cable box and have one go to you TV and one to your computer? That way the all the channels you have are unscrambled.

 

[telstar1]

The signal coming out of the cable-box would only display the active cable-box channel ... not the entire list of channels.

 

[Vernor]

Well, the cable co will probably tell you that according to the TOS, watching different channels on different screens means you must install another outlet+box.

 

[Lithium381]

heh this subject sounds like trouble....

edit - try running it through your VCR first......then you can get the RCA output from it to your computer.....not sure, i think i can have one channel on the VCR and another on the TV, then you could watch two things at once

 

[flashbacck]

er.. I don't think cable boxes are illegal. There's like a stupid loophole in the law. OWNING and USING a cable box isn't illegal, but you're suppose to report that you have it to your cable company and you're suppose to block the channels you don't get yourself.

I'm pretty sure that's right. Otherwise don't you think all the companies manufacturing these cable boxes would've been shut down a long time ago?

of course, someone correct me if I'm wrong here...

 

[spanky]

man u really dug far for this one.

 

[CRE]

Is there a TV tuner card that works with digital cable?

 

[flashbacck]

I found one for linux, but I think it might only do B&W. Someone care to try?

http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_4865.html