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  1. This might be a stupid question, I dunno. After much consideration, I bought a AverTV Studio card. On the card, there is a coaxial connector. If I use a coaxial cable and connect it directly from the wall to the card, will I be able to capture TV that way? As I have Insight Communications as my cable provider, my TV receives its signals from the cable box that is connected to it. Does this limit me to just capture via the RCA jacks?

    Thanks.
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  2. your tv receives the correct channel by using the cable box which receives its signal from the drop the cable company put in (from the wall). Most normal cable boxes are used to scramble/descramble ppv/premium channels. Now if you buy a splitter, so the signal can be split to both your tv and your computer, it merely comes down to a decision of where you want to put the splitter on the line.

    -If its before the cable box, the splitter will split the signal, one line going to the cable box and the other line going to the computer, than your computer will get the signal and be able to change the channel. However it will not be able to descramble premium channels or other services provided by your cable company that need the cable box.

    -If its after the cable box, the splitter will split the line coming out from the cable box with one line going to the tv and the other going to the computer, than the computer will only get the channel the cable box is on. Ie both the tv and computer will be getting the same show. The offset of this is that you get the power of your cable box which as mentioned above descrambles.

    once you have figured out where you would like to put the splitter its merely a matter of opening up your capturing program (whatever came with AverTV, virtualdub, etc) and choosing coax.

    oh btw a splitter is like $5.00 or so.
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