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HTPC / Media PC

  • 08-03-2005 5:05pm
    #1
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭


    I am building a HT / Media PC which I will be running my Chorus analogue cable through, and then onto my TV.

    so it will be cable > decoder > PVR in PC pci slot > PC Graphics Card out to TV

    I was wondering if my PC could decode the scrambled channels for output to my TV. Now I am not intending to do anything illegal, and already pay for all the channels I wish to watch, I was just wondering if this is possible. Surely a PC must be able to defeat any safeguards Chorus or NTL are capable of using, much as it can defeat all CD / Gaming safeguards.

    Inqui (puzzled)


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  • #2
    WizZard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    Interesting proposition, AFAIK it's only hardware that can do the descrambling. If you wer e to use it it would be

    cable > decoder > descrambler > PVR in PC pci slot > PC Graphics Card out to TV


  • #3
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    It's possible allright, though I'm not sure of the legality there. You don't already have a set top box right? It's just bog standard cable.

    check the forums at www.byopvr.com


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