HDTV on my PC

[a521]

I just bought a new monitor that is an HD Display, and I have an HD compatible video card...so...I would like to be able to watch HDTV on my computer monitor now.

I have comcast Cable TV with HD in our family room and standard cable feed with internet cable in the office of our house. Does anyone know what I would need to do, or have, in order to do this?

I've seen the HDTV Tuner PCI cards, but do I need to call Comcast and tell them I want HDTV in our office, or can I just plug the cable into one of those cards and start watching TV?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

[taquintana07]

what i did before with regular cable is just hook up the cable to the tuner and play through ati's software, worked like a charm im assuming it should be similar

[AirBrontosaurus]

If you want HDTV, then I think all you'll need is an HDTV TV tuner card. Since Comcast sends digital and analog signals through their coax lines, just plug it in a go.

However... I'm not 100% sure how they treat their digital signals. You may not be able to access the digital signal without registering your card or something.

So, analog TV would be no sweat, and if your TV Tuner has air-broadcast capabilities then you can pick up your local channels (which should broadcast in HD. I'm a fellow Indianapolis-ite and ours do). But for an HD signal of, say, Showtime or DiscoveryHD, I don't know if you can just plug and play.

[deadpass]

if you had a hd cable box and your video card is VIVO (video in, video out) then just use the HD component cables to go from the box to the video card.