PCI HDTV Tuner Over Digital Cable Box

[number9]

I have a digital cable box which is also an HDTV tuner

Are there any PCI cards that will allow me to capture HDTV programming on my pc through my cable box tuner?



NOTE: My HDTV source is through my Cable company... NOT OTA (Over-the-Air) signals...

Thanks in advance..

 

[number9]

eh?

 

[Matthias99]

No. There are no CableCard-compliant HDTV tuners for the PC, and there are unlikely to be any (legal) ones anytime soon. Content providers would have/are having a fit over this.

You can capture unencrypted HD from an appropriately-equipped digital cable box via FireWire (cable companies are legally obligated by the FCC to give you a FW-equipped cable box if you ask for it). You cannot capture encrypted content like this, however (which includes all PPV movies/events, and most non-network HD programming).

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