help?!?!

[unknownelementx]

I was interested in buying the snapstream system. i have 2 stupid questions though.

1) since my cable company uses a box to unscramble the cable do i need a box on the card? does it work with a box?the cable company said that there service dosent work with webtv but i dunno what webtv is or what the differences are.

2) is there some monthly fee i need to pay to get the programming service for recording shows liek tivo? there was some fee mentioned on the site but im not sure.

thanx, and i appreciate your help

[V_D_O]

1) since my cable company uses a box to unscramble the cable do i need a box on the card? does it work with a box?the cable company said that there service dosent work with webtv but i dunno what webtv is or what the differences are.

You'll need either an IR box (preferably with learning functions) or a null modem (RS232) cable to change channels. You can buy these from SnapStream's Yahoo! store.

[unknownelementx]

srry it may be because im half asleep but i didnt catch any of that. i plan to buy the snapstream program and the win tv radio card, would that be all i need......... or something more?

[unknownelementx]

hello.........can someone plz answer my last question?

[SouthPaw42]

TV Tuner cards can not decode scrambled channels. The tuner will only be able to see the same channels a tv does that is directly connected to the cable. The unscrambled channels are usually the 13 basic cable channels. To be able to record scrambles channels you will need to use a cable box. The cable box can be hooked to the tuner card with svideo, composite video or coax cable. Then you would use a IR Blaster http://www.snapstream.com/products/i...er/actisys.htm
The IR Blaster plugs into a serial port. Then you install the IR tuner software . You run IR Setup this software learns the codes from the Cable box remote. You place the IR Blaster in front of the cable box. When Snapstream sets the channel for a recording the IR Blaster changes the cable box channel like a remote would. Now there are more things need to do setup but like that but you will just need to read a couple of other posts in the database. It is all explained numerous times because people just ask question instead of checking to see if it has been answered before.