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Originally Posted by atko
Assuming I have understood your question right, as I understand it there is no such thing as a cable ready card as the cable companies use the same encryption as Sky do with satellite. In a nut shell, this means the card the engineer brings with him has a special number, like a serial number, which matches a number on the cable box. The card will not work in any other box. If you have cable and want to try your card in a mates box I think you will find you get an error message on the TV screen advising incorrect card inserted.
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Sorry, I may have mislead you! I was referring to a TV PCI card that has a TV tuner in it. I had an old card that could "see" the cable channels after it had been through an old analogue box, (in cable to box, cable output from box to tv card - using the PC instead of the TV!) but this did not give all of the channels that I had subscribed to at the time! The PCI Card that I have seen has, what it describes, as a "Hyper band-cable tuner". Does this mean that it can decode a cable signal (analogue)?
I may be a bit thick here, but it has been a long week!