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cable tv card?
2008-Sep-28, Sunday 06:02 pmDoes anybody out there know if a company makes a tv card that works with encoded digital cable tv? I've done a lot of looking around, but I can't find anyone who does. In theory, it should just be a matter of including a PCMCIA 2 slot on the tv card, then plugging an MCARD from your local cable company, calling them to activate the id number from the MCARD, and then you're set to watch all of the channels that you're paying for.
It looks like maybe external boxes can do it (like this one), but then I don't quite see the point of attaching it to your pc if it requires just as much hardware strewn about as a cablebox. I want an internal card for my pc that does the same job. In years past, I've enjoyed the tv card products from Hauppauge, but they only sell cards for unencoded (clear QAM) channels. Scientific-Atlanta (now Cisco) produces the MCARDs themselves but I can't tell that their products include a pc tv card that would make use of them.
It looks like maybe external boxes can do it (like this one), but then I don't quite see the point of attaching it to your pc if it requires just as much hardware strewn about as a cablebox. I want an internal card for my pc that does the same job. In years past, I've enjoyed the tv card products from Hauppauge, but they only sell cards for unencoded (clear QAM) channels. Scientific-Atlanta (now Cisco) produces the MCARDs themselves but I can't tell that their products include a pc tv card that would make use of them.