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Cryoma
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 Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:46 pm Post subject: looking for a tv tuner |
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I see cheap usb ones at best buy etc. But they take straight up co axle cable.
Is there a tuner that will work with my comcast box so I can get hd/on demand?
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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From what I've read in the past, what you need is a CableCARD, but the problem with that is, you cannot just go out and buy one. It's has to come equipped with a new machine (PC).
| wiki wrote: | CableCARD is a term trademarked by CableLabs for the Point of Deployment (POD) module defined by standards including SCTE 28, SCTE 41, CEA-679 and others. The CableCARD is physically a PCMCIA type II PC card, supplied by the cable company, which is inserted into a slot in the host (typically a digital television set or a set-top box) in order to identify and authorize the customer, and to provide proprietary decoding of the encrypted digital cable signal without the need for a set-top box. The cable tuner and QAM demodulator themselves are part of the host device, as is the MPEG decoder. The role of the card is to perform any conditional access and decryption functions. This results in an MPEG-2 transport stream, which is decoded by the host. The card also receives messages sent over the out-of-band signaling channel by the cable company's Head end servers and forwards them to the host.
Cards from major providers such as Comcast, Cox Communications, RCN and Time Warner Cable in some regions currently require on-site installation by a technician, who reports the unique ID numbers pre-assigned to both the CableCARD and the digital television to the company headquarters, where they are updated to the customer's account. Because of this, CableCARDs cannot be moved from one device to another without a visit from a cable company installer. Some regions (such as Comcast Houston) do allow customer installs, and actually provide special phone support for CableCARDs. The card is inserted as users do for laptop PCMCIA cards. The CableCARD identification numbers are given to the operator who then sends the CableCARD an out of band Entitlement Management Message (EMM), which remotely programs the CableCARD, authorizing it to decode for the specific host only those shows and services which the user is authorized to view. |
Here's one
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/reviews/ceton_infinitv_4_review
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Cryoma
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Wow...
Ok then will a regular USB TV tuner support HD cable?
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:24 am Post subject: |
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Almost all TV tuners will allow viewing of HD content, but they're over the air type. For your Comcast, don't know if you can just hook it up to it and watch it.
For premium HD content, you do need CableCARD.
I was about to get myself a TV tuner as well since my TV broke, but after reading this and got confused withthis. I've went out and bought a monitor (need a new one) with a build in TV tuner so I don't need to deal will all that crap.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Well that's a bit complicated, I just got a new computer and the W7 media thing told me to get a TV tuner to watch and record TV, so I'll just get a USB one and hope I get some 1080p.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:51 am Post subject: |
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Is this for a laptop/notebook computer?
*Every USB TV Tuner I have ever seen has sucked shit. Badly to the point I recommend against selling them.
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