So, I should just hook my coax cable output on the set top box to the input of my PVR-250MCE? The only thing is that I will probably get another card because that one does not have a remote control capability. Would you recommend a pvr-350 or pvr-500 or anything else? TV-out would be nice too ;-)
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Votour</b> <<a href="mailto:joevph@yahoo.com">joevph@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>--- Timothy Waters <<a href="mailto:timothy.waters@gmail.com">timothy.waters@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> What is a good tv card able to handle digital cable?<br>> I've got 350+ channels<br>> and I would like to record some stuff ;-)
<br>><br>> --<br>> Timothy Waters<br>> <a href="mailto:timothy.waters@gmail.com">timothy.waters@gmail.com</a><br>> <a href="http://www.e-Waters.org">http://www.e-Waters.org</a><br>> 205-587-9001<br>><br>
> "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than<br>> to speak out and remove<br>> all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln<br>><br>> "It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature<br>> the evil spirit of
<br>> man." Albert Einstein(1946)<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>>
<br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>><br><br>The best "card" is the set-top box that comes with<br>your digital cable, fed into a PVR-x50 card, being
<br>controlled by an IRBlaster (or serial port).<br>Alternatively, the set-top box that comes with your<br>digital cable, using Firewire. (By now, Firewire<br>capture may be better than S-Video in, I'm not sure -<br>Firewire is the only way you'll get HD, but I've done
<br>neither of these methods, so I can't really comment on<br>that.)<br><br>I say this because most of those channels that you get<br>will be encrypted, and to decrypt them, you need the<br>set-top box/PVR that your cable company gave you. For
<br>the unencrypted channels, if they are broadcast on QAM<br>as MPEG-2, you can use a QAM-capable card (many of the<br>ATSC cards are QAM capable now).<br><br>-- Joe<br><br>__________________________________________________
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<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Timothy Waters<br><a href="mailto:timothy.waters@gmail.com">timothy.waters@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.e-Waters.org">http://www.e-Waters.org</a><br>205-587-9001<br><br>"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
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