Non Analog Channels for us in the US ? (1 Viewer)

[TheLamer]

I have been searching around haven't come up with anything.

Are their any products for pc's like the DVB-C cards in Europe that will accept the cable TV cards we have here in the states.

So you can watch/record/pause digital and HDTV channels using your cable connection. And not just have analog channels.

Cable or satellite let me know.

Thanks

 

[mr_minning]

I'm just about to investigate this. A friend of mine said that out cable-supplier offers digital cable on the same connection (socket?) as the analog. Don't know he got it all right. But if he did, I'll be getting myself a floppy dtv, because our picture quality isn't all that great.
They (our cable supplier) don't transmit in HDTV yet though :-\
Do you have analog and digital cable at the same time in the same socket?

 

[TheLamer]

Edit: After some googleing I found what I was looking for and now I wonder if mediaportal in conjunction with tv server has cable tv channel information? http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9673232-1.html



Yeah it goes over the same cable lol.

The issue is that the digital channels and HD channels are encrypted and need to be decoded by either their set top boxes or a cable card.

Now I have seen cards that can tune into digital stations (non-encrypted) and obviously ones that can tune analogue stations.

So if I am correct the only channels you can get your HTPC directly tuning givin multiple connections and cards are:

Non Encrypted digital staions
Standard 80 channel analogue stations
Over the air stations
Over the air HD stations



No besides the TV being able to natively tune into them I guess you could do video in from a cable receiver or satellite receiver but then you need t ouse two remotes and lose record functionality and what not. That and it would be messy.


So people please tell me if their are Cablecard pci-e adapters much like the ones in Europe that allow you to watch encrypted channels.