Ideas on tuner card

Hi yall,

I am attempting to put together an HTPC and have run across a situation that I am lost on. I live in NC, and Time Warner Cable does not have unencrypted HD channels available. (I know - thank you TWC... everywhere else in the country the local channels are unencryted but here they are encrypted). I am not in the right location to get OTA HD - so I will have to go with the cable HD as a video signal source.


My problem is that I want the best picture possible... and I believe that an N6 is just not going to compare to having my computer handle the display duties.

Is there a way to take a signal that is being handled by a cable company cable box into an HTPC and let the pc do the scaling or am I stuck with using an N6 (or another scaler box)?


thanks a bunch. Jessyka