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I have an old plan with my cable company, we receive their "Basic TV" package that has analog channels plus the unencrypted local network HD channels (NBC, CBS, etc.). We have an HTPC I built a while back that has a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Media Center Kit Dual TV Tuner, which supports the following standards:
- ATSC
- ClearQAM
- NTSC
The cable company called and offered a good rate for digital TV, but it would require getting a cable box. My question is, would our HTPC still work with the digital TV setup? (I asked the guy on from the cable company on the phone, but he was a salesman and not a technical guy, so he wasn't very helpful.)
Right now the coax cable comes in from the wall, into the HTPC, then an HDMI cable to the TV. My hope is that with the cable box I would be able to have the coax cable coming in from the wall go into the cable box, then from there into the HTPC, then the HDMI to the TV.
Thanks
The number of channels your HTPC will receive depends on which channels continue to be transmitted without encryption. Some cable companies are encrypting all channels. – sawdust – 2014-06-12T03:35:42.860