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JewishBacon
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what is involved in hooking my pc up so I can watch cable? I dont have a TV (dat college life). If I just get a TV tuner card, can I jsut hook my cable box's coax to it and watch live tv?   

 

 

Before anyone asks.  I have a cable box but no TV because my apartment forced me to have one. friggin commies.

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. If I just get a TV tuner card, can I jsut hook my cable box's coax to it and watch live tv?  

 

Pretty much.  Is the cable box live?

Remember there may be fees payable (eg a license fee for non-time shifted playback in the UK).

 

There is very little on the TV that doesn't appear on a web site somewhere.  A lot of people no longer/have never had a TV they get all they need from internet news sites, YouTube for quick ten minute 'programmes' ,netflix for box sets/series, catch-up sites for main stream channels.etc.  I pretty much never watch telly these days not a conscious decision just happened, as the telly gets more and more channels all it seems to be is more and more dross.

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I live in the USA

 

 

Where do you live? In the UK, there's multiple websites to watch live TV on for free such as http://tvplayer.com

 

 

Pretty much.  Is the cable box live?

Remember there may be fees payable (eg a license fee for non-time shifted playback in the UK).

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Does your monitor have HDMI? just plug your cable box into it.

 

Or if your cable provider supports CableCards ( I rent one for $2.95 a month instead of renting a cablebox/dvr )  you can use something like this, and windows media center.  Your cable provider MUST support and rent CableCards though. 

 

 

http://cetoncorp.com/products/infinitv-6-ethernet/  ( its 100 cheaper on amazon )

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If I just get a TV tuner card, can I jsut hook my cable box's coax to it and watch live tv?   

 

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