Video-In Signal Partially Scrambled

[telstar1]

I've got a problem with my ATI Radeon AIW video card and my cable signal.
Some channels come through without a problem, but others end up being scrambled.

My cable company has 12 descriptions of how I can hook up my signal (some using the cable-box and others not using the cable-box), but I've yet to figure out one that will allow me to see the standard cable-TV channels on my AIW.

I tried splitting the signal before it goes into the cable-box and sending it into my AIW, but that didn't work. I tried splitting the signal as it comes out of the cable-box (one goes to the TV and the other goes to the AIW) but that didn't work. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I might beat this problem? I'm not trying to steal cable ... I just want to use my video card with the cable-service I've already payed for.

Thanks,
Telstar

 

[rbV5]

OOPS, didn't read your thread properly. The scrambled channels are likely your premium channels correct? You will need to have the cable box to descramble the premium channels and route into the radeon through either the s-video or composite in, not the coax in(that is for tuner). You'll need an RF adapter to convert the coax-out of your cable box into composite(rca)or s-video and then into the composite-in on the purple AIW video-in connector.

 

[telstar1]

Thanks for the reply. Turns out my cable-box has composit-outs built into it ... so I did what you said, hooked the composite-out into the purple AIW box and it works flawlessly. Doesn't exactly allow for the TiVo stuff the AIW normall does since it's only getting the channel active on the box, but it should be close enough to what I want. Turns out my cable company scrambles anything that's not network TV ... talk about annoying.

Telstar

 

[rbV5]

Cool about the composite outs, bummer about the scrambled signal, you could use the TIVO for the network stuff though.