Cable TV on my iMac desktop (suggestions needed)

[Scott-n-Houston]

Do you guys have a suggestion for the best piece of hardware to get my cable signal available for viewing on my iMac desktop?

I've seen a couple of these things in stores. The Coax cable feeds in and it converts to a format for watching on your desktop. I'm wondering how that works with cable, scrambled channels, and/or HD channels.

Anyone done this?

(I have a 2.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2 GB Ram, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro video)

 

[Scarlet Fever]

If you're talking about free to air tv, the elgato eyeTV is hard to beat.

 

[Scott-n-Houston]

Actually, I'm talking about taking the Cable TV I'm paying for and putting that on screen.

Will it have to come out of the cable box, or can I skip needing a box all together?

 

[aristobrat]

Generally speaking, anything your TV can tune without requiring a cable box, TV tuners for computers can tune too.

What that ends up meaning for most people is that the cable box is required for the majority of their channels.

 

[Sonicjay]

http://support.elgato.com/index.php...viewarticle&parentcategoryid=1&kbarticleid=28

 

[Scott-n-Houston]

Thanks! It appears I'll have to have a box feeding into it in order to get the channels I want.