[ale] Video card for viewing cable

[Dan Mount]

One option for the cable box idea is to use a remote control that you
can control from your computer. There are several out there you can find
one example at : http://www.ziplabel.com/cir/index.html They only list
support for DOS and Windows, but support a C interface maybe that would
work. There are more out there too...

http://www.smarthome.com/8002.html
http://www.dodgies.demon.co.uk/

-----Original Message-----
From: Wandered Inn [mailto:esoteric at denali.atlnet.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 9:10 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Users
Subject: Re: [ale] Video card for viewing cable


Subba Rao wrote:

> Thank you and to everyone who replied. I will look into the BT848/878
chipset
> cards. One other question about the channel listing, most cards list
only 125
> channels on the box. What about if you get 125+ channels from your
cable
> company? This is not a feature that will stop me from getting the
card.

Not that this is the only solution, but I've gotten around this a couple
of different ways.  Just as you can set your TV on a single channel and
then use the 'cable co.' tuner, whether that's a box or a digital tuner
(Bellsouth).  The downside of this is that you have to use the remote
that came with the box/tuner provided.

I've done this also with a generic (bt848) capture card that does not
have a tuner.  Plug the output from the cable tuner into the capture
card and you can run through the channels via the cable tuner.   You can
get the generic capture cards cheaper then cards that have tuners.

> 
> Thanks again and Wish you all a Happy New Year.

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