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07-15-2008, 05:18 PM

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HMTguy

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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.

07-15-2008, 07:10 PM

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Re: Media PC noobness

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Originally Posted by jagojon3

Yes, you can get a perfect HD signal. HD broadcasts are digital, and use less bandwidth than analog channels so coax has no problem with it.

Almost every single tuner card out there has at least one coax input.

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?

07-15-2008, 07:24 PM

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Re: Media PC noobness

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

07-15-2008, 09:36 PM

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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.