> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:26 -0600, Brandon Beattie wrote: > Will this card work if your cable company offers HDTV or would that > service likely have a set-top box? Would it work even with a set-top > box? Sorry to be so ignorant; I've never had anything but basic cable > or rabbit ears.
If you don't _need_ a set top box for cable, then the card works (And if they don't send encrypted QAM, which from reports I've gotten SLC and Utah Valley don't... but I can't promise your nearest cable hub is like everyone elses...) If you do have a set top box, then you would use a regular standard def tv tuner card (or capture) to input the video and audio. There's 3 ways to control set top boxes via myth. IR, Serial cable, and USB(okay 4, firewire). IR and serial are what 98% of the Myth community uses. If you want to capture HDTV from a set top box, you can't _yet_ but I know someone who's working on fixing that.. An almost failproof way of finding if you don't have encrypted QAM is if you can connect a TV to your cable hookup and you get your cable stations.. If you _have_ to use a special set top box from that cable company, the box could be decrypting the encrypted QAM signal. Note: This requires that your TV can tune QAM... Most do now... --Brandon -- .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
