Thread: VM TV signal straight into a desktop PC
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Old 22-04-2010, 22:52   #2
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Re: VM TV signal straight into a desktop PC
No it's not. The signal is a DVB-C signal, so before you could even think of using it you'd need a DVB-C tuner card. Easy enough to get. However the channels are all encrypted, and require the use of a VM smartcard, which will only work with the set top box it's paired to.

What you could do, would be to have a multiroom subscription, and an additional set top box, which you could then use the analogue outputs from to feed an analogue capture card, and record on the PC that way, but without a Virgin supplied and paid for STB in the equation there is no way to get the PC to decode the signal.
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