Connecting cable box to PC

[WhenKittensATK]

I own a HD converter from Bright House Networks in Central Florida (component and hdmi out). [REMOVED: They do sell cable cards], so I'll be hooking the cable box to some kind of tv tuner / capture card. Does anyone have recommendations for one?

 

[valve1138]

1. They have to sell cablecards, FCC mandates it. If someone there told you no, they're wrong.

2. Hauppauge HD-PVR or Colossus

 

[WhenKittensATK]

So I would get all the same channels with just the cable card? I get the hd converter/cable card for free from them, so was just curious if I could just connect that to the PC and if I ever wanted to move it to a HDTV I could without requesting equipment change.

Honestly what would be the benefits of the cable card only? I could just control it through their converter. Would I lose recording functionally if I didn't use a cable card?

 

[xLokiX]

I have Brighthouse and use a cable card. The benefit of the cable card setup is its cheaper than renting the DVRs from them. A DVR will come out to about $20 per tv per month from brighthouse, the cable card is only $3. With a cable card you won't have access to on-demand and pay-per-view channels. All other channels will work fine though.

Edit: Forgot to mention, Brighthouse flags everything with the copy-once cci flag, you must use Windows Media Center as the DVR backend.

 

[thegrinch]

I'd recommend a Ceton InfiniTV6 PCIe tuner, personally. Silicon Dust makes decent CC tuners too.

As mentioned, you won't get on demand - I believe you CAN get pay-per view, but you have to request it over phone.