Questions about watching digital cable tv on my PC

[frankienyc123]

Ok I have an ATI AIW800xl which I got from a friend for free, but he didn't have any of the connectors or software for it. So ive been using it as a basic video card for my system. But id like to know how I can use it to watch cable tv on my pc. But If i just plug in the cable to the AIW i cant get any premium channels. Could I just take say the S-video output and audio from my cable box and plug it into one of the AIW inputs?? Could I then use the cable box to change channels and stuff? Where can I purchase the I/O connector blocks for my AIW 800xl? Also what software would I have to use to do what im trying to do?? Right now I just have the basic ATI display driver+ATI Tray Tool installed. I don't use ATI MMC OR CCC, I didn't really like their software. Are there other options?? I just want to use the video card to input the video from my cable box. Please help.

 

[frankienyc123]

Its not that im looking for more than the AIW software its just the opposite, im looking for less. I dont use any of the AIW options really, I only have the card cuz a freind gave it to me and couldnt pass up a free graphics card, especially a half way decent one I dont want to have to use the ATI MMC if i dont have to. Heres another thing, i noticed the AIW accepts inoput from s-video or composite, but not the higher quality dvi or component connections. Does anyone make a video capture card that could accept the dvi output from my cable box, that way I could keep the video in the digital domain??

 

[illuminatirex]

yup i agrie, the old aiw software is good(just my thought on it) i think its beter than the new tv wonder software, which doesnt even alow u to pause ur recordings, u can hook up a cable box to the aiw card, but u have to put ur aiw software on channel #3 (if im not mistaken) and tehn change the channels threw the cable box.