Can you do it? Apparently it's easy according to this page.
Apparently all you need is a HDTV tuner stick.
The thing is that they say to connect the cable directly to the tuner stick. Which would mean it can record only unscrambled channels. What I'd like to be able to do is record the output from my HD cable box since it unscrambles the HD channels then feed that to the computer. Then play back from the computer.
I guess one could connect the coax cable from the cable box to the stick. But then you'd only be able to record SD.
They have a link to this HDTV stick from Amazon.com. It's the Hauppauge 01200 WinTV-HVR-850. However, it gets mixed reviews. The reviews are better for the Avertv Hybrid Volar Max TV Tuner, though it still gets a fair number of poor reviews. Even cheaper is the Diamond TVW750USB ATI Theater HD 750 USB TV Tuner (on the box I see it says ATI TV Wonder HD 750). Strangely I don't see a coax connector. But a lot of negative reviews here too.
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