[mythtv-users] digital tv card?

[Joe Votour]

--- Timothy Waters <timothy.waters at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is a good tv card able to handle digital cable?
> I've got 350+ channels
> and I would like to record some stuff  ;-)
> 
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The best "card" is the set-top box that comes with
your digital cable, fed into a PVR-x50 card, being
controlled by an IRBlaster (or serial port). 
Alternatively, the set-top box that comes with your
digital cable, using Firewire.  (By now, Firewire
capture may be better than S-Video in, I'm not sure -
Firewire is the only way you'll get HD, but I've done
neither of these methods, so I can't really comment on
that.)

I say this because most of those channels that you get
will be encrypted, and to decrypt them, you need the
set-top box/PVR that your cable company gave you.  For
the unencrypted channels, if they are broadcast on QAM
as MPEG-2, you can use a QAM-capable card (many of the
ATSC cards are QAM capable now).

-- Joe

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