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I don't own a TV, but I subscribe to cable internet. I would like to combine a TV tuner (a device that streams broadcast and cable TV to your computer) and a cable modem, so I can get high-speed internet and cable TV with the same device.
I love Mini-itx systems.
http://www.mini-itx.com/news/16555551/
Build something similar to this with your cable modem inside the box and add a DVB / analogue TV card. [Jinbish, May 17 2005]
"Can a cable modem be used to receive digital TV for viewing on a PC?"
http://www.cable-mo...php?one_question=48
A discussion of the concept. [waugsqueke, May 18 2005]
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Hmm... this idea is probably 5-10 years ahead of its time. I vote yes. |
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This is sort-of odd. I have a PCI card for TV and a NIC pulling in DSL. Am I missing something on this idea? |
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The modem I use plugs into the TV cable, not the phone line, like DSL. I want to combine the tuner with the modem, so I can get both video and data with the same device. |
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I don't think I'd use something like this, as I prefer to have my cablemodem on the other side of a router/firewall, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea. [+] |
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I don't get this idea at all. Beer/bear/bare with me will you? |
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At the front of our house the tv cable enters through a little hole in the wall. Inside the signal is split threeways: tv/radio/internet. I have a tv, but if I didn't I could buy a thingy(is videocard the right english word?) to put in my computer and then I could watch tv on my monitor. So is that what your idea is? |
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If you've got a little bit (!) of spare cash then why don't you make one yourself?
Now you say in your idea that you want to use the same device - you don't explicitly say you want the content down the same cable...
(I know strictly speaking this isn't 'the same device' - it is a collection of devices in a single box, but hey no-one else will know!) |
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At most, this saves you a signal splitter. Bah. [-] |
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It also saves having to use two separate devices. |
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Yeah, [waugs], but it is baked, right? |
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Sorry to go on about this, but in the UK this would make it impossible to use a cable modem without a TV licence. |
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Man alive, [Ian's T]. I feel your pain. I've spent the best part of the last 6 months trying to get a EPIA based project to dance to my tune and have been thwarted at every turn. If it's not linux drivers, it's insufficient power supply. If it's not the power supply, it's the TV card that doesn't fit in the brackets without the aid of blue-tac. If it isn't any of them then it's the sudden impact of a sledgehammer accompannied by some kind of beastial rage... |
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Stick a 100K across it and see what happens; if it's too bright, try 270K, if it's too dim, try 47K. |
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