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Digital cable compatible tuner card?

by DarkHawke Mar 26, 2005 9:01PM PST

As my cable company is nudging me to move from analog to digital service (by way of moving premium channels to digital only), I face the impending loss of my ability to watch TV on my computer, using the analog cable-ready ATI TV Wonder card I've had for a couple years. So I'm wondering if there are any TV tuner cards out there that are DIGITAL cable ready. I've read here and there about HDTV tuner cards, but nothing that I recall mentioned anything about working with non-HD digital cable signals.

Yes, I could get a converter box from my cable company, but they rent additional boxes at a substantially higher rate than for the first one. It would also render my PVR software, if not useless, at least harder to operate, there being no IR blaster or other cable box controllers on my TV card. Any ideas, folks?

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