Digital Cable and TV Tuners

[GaryK]

I'm not a techy by any means so speak to me in "moron" please.

I'm in the market for a video card with a TV Tuner, particularly the ATI AIW 9800 Pro. I noticed that the specs mentioned 125 channel setup. I'm not such what this is exactly. Can someone explain? I have digital cable with nearly 1000 stations. Will I be able to receive all of them, only a portion, or nothing at all for that matter?

Thanks,
Gary

 

[Ruroni]

It is your Digitial Cable Receiver box that will do all the channel surfing. As far as your TV Tuner is concern, it never leaves channel 3.

The 125 channel is for direct analogue feed (if you were to hook the cable directly into the TV Tuner card's Coaxil nipple, 125 channels.)

[CABLE FEED] <---------> [COMPUTER] (via TV Tuner card)


But what you'll be doing is:

[Cable Feed]<------->[Cable Box]<--------> [anything else]<---->[computer]

So the channel flippin is here^

 

[GaryK]

Thank You.



What would be the purpose for a direct link from the cable feed to PC?

Is there any way to split the signal from: [Cable Feed]<------->[Cable Box]<--------> [anything else]<---->[computer] + [TV] or do I have to switch it each time?