Any Cable TV Capture Cards for MCE that support Telewest (UK)?

  Hi, I'm wondering if there are any PC Video Capture PCI Cards that can be
connected directly to the Telewest Broadband Cable network, bypassing the
need for a Set-Top Box, and viewing or recording the TV signal directly into
Windows Media Centre equipped PCs?

If not, any planned or on the way?
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Thanks.

CJSnet

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 On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 20:33:38 +0100, CJSnet wrote:

No, No and, sadly, no.

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Dave

  Well, DVB-C cards are readily available, so if you have any _unencrypted_
digital services in your cable, you could receive those. If you want to
receive encrypted digital services, see if they use an encryption system
for which a CI CAM is available. If there is, you could purchase a DVB-C
card with a CI slot, the CI CAM and put your smart card into that CAM.

As to the Media Center, it supports neither DVB-C nor CI, so you would have
to use the card manufacturer's TV application instead.

Regards,«
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Robert Schlabbach
e-mail: robert_s@gmx.net
Berlin, Germany

 Hi Robert

There seems to be some DVB-C CAM cards which do support Telewest Digital
Cable in the UK.

However are you 100% certain that Media Center will not work with any DVB-C
cards?  Here is a link the manufacturer of the one that will work with
Telewest:
http://www.twinhan.com/product_cable_2.asp
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Thanks.

CJSnet

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It's 100% certain that MCE does not work with either DVB-C or DVB-S nor with the
Common Interface (CI) into which you plug your Conditional Access Module (CAM),

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Nigel Barker
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