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<blockquote data-quote="milhouse" data-source="post: 185818" data-attributes="member: 26653">I haven't actually tried, but from the research I've done it seems that this would work - but only for unencrypted HD channels.Ignore the settop box channel number (irrelevent).&nbsp; The &quot;real&quot; channel number is more like the 3.1, 5.1, etc.The digital channels you can tune with your LCD tv directly are the unencrypted ones (QAM tuner).&nbsp; For example, if you do a channel search and let the LCD find the channels, those are the same channels you'd be able to tune directly with an HD tuner card in MP.&nbsp; Discovery HD is probably encrypted, so you wouldn't be able to tune it with the LCD or an HD tuner card.The mythical cable card would theoretically let you unencrypt.&nbsp; But 1) AFAIK they don't exist yet, and 2) once they are generally available they'll be so locked down with DRM that it will probably never work with non-commercial software.(I believe things are MUCH better in Europe than the sad state of U.S. digital television...)Milhouse</blockquote>

[QUOTE="milhouse, post: 185818, member: 26653"] I haven't actually tried, but from the research I've done it seems that this would work - but only for unencrypted HD channels. Ignore the settop box channel number (irrelevent). The "real" channel number is more like the 3.1, 5.1, etc. The digital channels you can tune with your LCD tv directly are the unencrypted ones (QAM tuner). For example, if you do a channel search and let the LCD find the channels, those are the same channels you'd be able to tune directly with an HD tuner card in MP. Discovery HD is probably encrypted, so you wouldn't be able to tune it with the LCD or an HD tuner card. The mythical cable card would theoretically let you unencrypt. But 1) AFAIK they don't exist yet, and 2) once they are generally available they'll be so locked down with DRM that it will probably never work with non-commercial software. (I believe things are MUCH better in Europe than the sad state of U.S. digital television...) Milhouse [/QUOTE]

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