again.. pretty brand new to all this

from what it sounds the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 should be a fine card for my system

i have a black scientic american COX digital cable box hooked up to my tv right now

my question is how do i watch digital cable and record it

Can you narrow that down a bit?

- The cable box needs to decode the digital signal for you.

- It's output then goes to your TV or your capture card.

- The box can output and the capture card can take the signal in any number of ways:

- S-Video
- Composite
- rebroadcast on some channel like 3 or 4

There are also other ways to get the signal from a cable box like Firewire (see the DTV forum).

- For this to do you any good you need to be able to control the cable box. This can be done via a serial or firewire port, or using an "IR blaster". An IR blaster is just a IR transmitter that allows your system to emulate the infrared signals sent by your remote control.

ummm.. well

well the box decoeds the digital channels(2 thru 950) and it out puts it to the tv via coax(ch3or4) or rca cables (red yellow white)..

so....

Yellow RCA phono jack is "composite video". Red and white are audio R&L.

ok thanks

i am still not sure how i am supposed to configure it tho

will i be able to browse channels with my wintv remote or will i have to selecte a channel on my cabel box first

Search for "IR blaster" or "cable box" for more details.

The short answer is, "That's the whole pont of having an IR blaster." Oh and the PVR-150 (non-MCE) comes with one.

you select channels with your remote....the irblaster sends signals to the cable box

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Here is some more info on using a Digital Cable box.

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... DigitalBox