Re: Media PC noobness
 

The Windows Media Center remote works pretty nice, I'd recommend one. If I want to do "PC" stuff and edit configurations and such I just VNC into the computer from the laptop in the living room.

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Yeah, I understand that, was just thinking about it the wrong way. If he plugged the cable straight from the wall he would be able to get the HD, but he would need a cablecard. If he went through a cable box, then out through coax into his PC, he wouldn't need the cable card since the box would do the decoding, but I thought it would lose signal quality since the only purpose of the coax out on the box is for TVs that don't have av/component/hdmi/whatever inputs.

Isn't the output from the cable box just regular RF modulation, ie shitty?
Wouldn't he need a cable card to use the signal straight from the wall?

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I just got home and my box does have a coaxial out, so I'm assuming I can just plug that beeeytch in and get my cable goodness

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The output from the cable box is fine, not shitty at all. He could pick up the local stations if the cable company broadcasts them unencrypted like they do here (Charter), but to get the rest of the channels he would need a cable box or a commercially branded htpc and theres only a few available now, currently there is no solution for hdtv decryption on home built PCs.

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ps3 is compatible with media center if you have that

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sounds like a lot of work, shoulda bought a mac. :P

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Macs are for fags

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These days macs are whatever you install OSX on. ::)

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Ya... Apple has ALWAYS been about software...... hahahaha.