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Today a question came across my mind, is it possible to hook up cable to an external monitor or Mac/PC? I found this (http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Multimedia-Capture-Device-VC500MAC/dp/B007QCIBX8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343613160&sr=8-1&keywords=TV+Tuner+Devices+for+mac) and thought it might work. Does anyone have any suggestions? The only reason I'm asking this is because this fall I'm entering college and I'm looking to buy a Dell IPS 24" LED 1080P Display but recently discovered that my room has a cable connection. It'd be nice if I could have the display and watch cable on it instead of buying an HDTV; they seem to always be more expensive.. Thanks so much! |
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Yeah, you can, but that doesn't look HD though. You'd only get SD video, as it doesn't have an HDMI or even a Component connection. If you have a cable provider, check if they offer a TV on PC option like Time Warner does: Otherwise, you'd plug in your cable box like so and you'd just fire up the program to view the video and it will look like so: I have done that before, plugging it in like that and watching TV, it's pretty epic. Oh cool! How would I go about hooking up the cable and what program would I use? Well you'd have to get the cable box first, and just use the RCA cables to plug it into the capture stick, and the program you'd use is the program that comes with the stick. My case it was some propriety software StkATVAp, that came with my EasyCap DC60, but you know it will be different for each thing. May I ask what Cable provider do you get there? I'm not sure. I think the cable service is campus-wide. Ah well, but if it's Time Warner, Comcast or Cablevision, I know they have TV on PC options, so consider that. You have to have internet and cable with them though, so bare that in mind. If they give you a cable box, just pick up a cheap tuner off ebay, 3-10$, if they don't give you a cable box, you'll need a tuner that can handle a cable decoder, or just use an antenna on the cheap one and get dtv Exactly, I know Time Warner scrambles their premium channels if you decide to cheap out and not get a cable box. my cable box has dies 3 times this past month, so I hooked it into out dvd/vcr and we get like 20 channels, not even pbs or anything like them though Exactly, If I plug in my cable via my TV, I'd get 100 or so channels, of news, TBS, PBS, and foreign channels. No Spike, History, A&E, etc. The funny thing is, we have some weird package, so most of the upper channels, we don't get, but since we get the new box it takes like 3 days to update the config, so for 3 days we get all the premium channels, and my PC is too far away, and wmc doesn't agree too well with my plugging in external sources into my tv tuner card, I think we get every channel except the adult channels and some odd channels here and there. Lmao, you found a loophole!
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I actually just found this on Apple's website. It's a little pricey, but I think it'd work for what I want. You'd still have to plug in your cable box regardless which route you go to. Only thing you don't need a cable box for is a TiVo which your cable service will provision for it to work on their service. I do have a cable connection available that I can connect to in the room. I think I just need another cord to connect that device and the cable port.. Right but as @pjob797 said, it's depending if you get a cable box or not. If you don't, plug in your cable and go. If you do, you have to get a tuner, like you posted. |
