Re: Connecting wiht Digital Cable?

As long as you have basic cable, it shouldn't need anything special. Does the same connection work straight into a cable-ready TV?
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"Mel" <Mel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:817E5DF0-AA58-4E7F-A4B0-E05D955F8AF3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
do I need a special cord to do that? I bought a coxial cable cord to connect
from the splitter to the pc and it doesn't work, it comes in scrambled

(have splitter because I need to also send signal from the wall to the modem
for our phone connection)

"Doug Knox - [MS MVP]" wrote:

If you don't have a set top box, you don't have Digital cable (unless your
TV has cable cards support). Just connect the cable to the tuner card in
your PC.

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"Mel" <Mel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I recently moved and have Comcast Digital phone/internet/cable. I have >a
> cable modem and am using an ether net cable to hook up the internet - > how
> do
> I connect the cable to my PC?
>
> 1. I do not have a set top box in the computer room - is that > necessary?
> or
> can I merely use a digital splitter to get signal to the computer > directly
> from the wall?
>
>
>
>


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