The best card to watch/record HDTV?

[Nelson37]

You mentioned HDMI was disabled, They HAVE to let you use this. I'm thinking there may be a connection with HDMI and the Firewire both being disabled. Have you purchased any HD channels?

SFAIK, the "legal" justification for using this port was if you had a DVHS recorder, which apparently observes all the copyright protection rules. Whether or not you should be able to record premium content was somewhat unclear.

I would test with a local station or non-premium channel, but you have to get the port working.

[Chuck_Johnson]

Yeah... believe it or not, the HDMI port was "disabled".

The Firewire port was marked as "unavailable".

I do not have any movies channels on my cable account, but I do have the regular HDTV network channels. They show up as widescreen on my regular television, and say HD on the bottom corner, along with the network logo.