I want to watch my basic cable stations from my desktop pc using windows media player windows 7.I hooked up my ati tv wonder 650 card and did the configurations needed. Once the system scans the tv channels it comes back with local channels only.I entered the configs manually and put in Cable-No box-Time Warner Northeast Ohio- scans with local 3,5,8,19,25 wviz. It then says that time warner cleveland detected.How do i get the cable channels? I have the cable line hooked directly into the card. Can someone tell me what a good card will do this? Reason why:My wife uses the dvr cable box for her watching,and I would use basic so i can record the shows using media center. The basic channels come in great. I also noticed I don't get channel 55 which should be WBNX I get wuab 43 though. Any help would be greatly appreciated
u want a television card to have the skill to visual exhibit unit television on ur laptop. it has a coax connecter on it and would replace the sign in to a photograph. those are approximately one hundred funds from haupage. terry
The built-in QAM tuner on the ATI card will only be able to pick-up unencrypted cable channels which are usually limited to the same broadcast channels you get from Over-The-Air antenna TV. I would say it would be very rare for cable companies to broadcast cable channels in the clear so they can be picked up by anyone for free. My cable company doesn't even broadcast the free local channels in the clear, only music and radio stations. By the way, in order to receive cable channels on your media center you need to use either one of two methods. A) Using a cable-card tuner and obtaining a cable-card from your cable company. An authorized cable-card allows you to access and decrypt cable channels on a third-party device like a media center. B) Using a tuner/capture card with an analog input and an IR blaster. The TV set-top box video output connects to the capture card, and the IR blaster is used to control the cable box. The only way to get HD using this method is to purchase the expensive Hauppauge HD PVR.
