Digital Cable HDTV Tuner Card Reviewed

Jack Kolesar of AMDPower writes "We have posted a review of a PC HDTV Tuner card that can receive QAM (Digital Cable) signals along with traditional 8VSB signals. This appears to be the first PC Card which can accomplish this task. Further, the software also comes with a utility to downsample HDTV content to DVD and DivX. "

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Re:what about encrypted digital content

[stratjakt]

What about decrypting it in software?

I know there were tons of software descramblers for Nargavision, or whatever that was called.

Can a digital cable signal be decrypted? How strong is the encryption? As old as it is, I'd imagine the first digital set top boxes couldn't have had too much horsepower, so the scheme must be relatively simple to decode that much data on-the-fly..

Could "decoders" (password hashes?) be bought and downloaded from the cable company?