No but and maybe I dreamed it but didn't someone send a link from gizmodo for a cable card tuner for the PC.
I can't find the email and can't recover it from deleted items. Also, one other thing to check. Is Comcast in your area going to switched digital video (SDV)? If so, you may or may not be able to use the cable card. Basically what happens with SDV is, say no one in your area is watching channel 175, Then Comcast doesn't transmit channel 175 in your area and that bandwidth is freed up for other services, cable modems, video on demand... Their cable boxes have the ability to tell the head end what channel you are watching so the head end knows what channels to transmit. You will need a tuning resolver so your pc can talk back to the head end. I hear these are available for the Tivo series 3 and HD boxes, but fortunately Comcast in my area hasn't implemented SDV yet. You may want to browse around on www.avscience.com. Lots of knowledge there, in the forums. Also, here is a Wikipedia link on how SDV works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_video Good luck. Glen. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] web -> HDTV Hey Glen, know anyone who carries that OEM card? On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Glen Johnson <gjohn...@vhcc.edu> wrote: The Hauppage devices are over the air digital. Not the same as over cable digital. The only cable card pc tuner is an OEM only and available for Win7 media center. From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] web -> HDTV Why can't you get one of the Hauppage HDTV USB device. From what I read, they can received Analog and Digital. The one with the cable coax connection should work. And if you look around you can get one of those type devices for around $50. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Erik Goldoff <egold...@gmail.com> wrote: not sure about your area, but comcast where I live is going to transition their channels above channel 27 to digital transmission over cable on October 13th, requiring their digital box to view those stations. ( The digital channel transmission takes less cable bandwidth than the current analog channels, and they intend on using the newly re-gained bandwidth for on-demand and other pay based content. I currently have a WinXP based Media Center PC with tuner card and I'm gonna loose the ability to view stations above channel 27 when they make the switch. I don't know if there's a 'cable card' version of tuner available that would work for this now ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ________________________________ From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:kava...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] web -> HDTV My wife and I are looking at a Samsung 40" HDTV (UN40B7000 probably) and I'd like to be able to easily toggle into various web channels now available. Anyone already doing this? What is the easiest (and most spouse friendly) way to do it? I have Comcast for both TV and Internet, and I'm open to dedicating a PC to the job. -- -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec --------------------------------------------- What matters?... Only the flicker of light within the darkness, the feeling of warmth within the cold, the knowledge of love within the void. яя" Joan Walsh Anglund ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
