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I'm new to this and so I'm pretty confused by what all I can and can't do and what exactly I need, so if I could get some help here it'd be greatly appreciated
Anyways, here's my situation:
1) For the next eight months, I will have analog cable where I am staying for my internship, but this is the easy part - I should be able to just get any old TV tuner card and I'll get all the channels no problem by just taking a coax cable from the wall to my card, right?
2) When I get back to school, at my apartment we have Comcast Digital Cable and we also pay extra for HD channels and such. I would at the very least want to be able to view all of the channels (doesn't have to be HD, but that would be a plus). So, what would I need in order to first just view the channels on my computer regardless of SD/HD, and secondly (optionally) get them in HD?
The tuner that I was planning on getting that I thought would get the job done was an AverMedia M780 (ATSC/NTSC/QAM - I'd post a link but I'm not allowed to yet). It'll do the analog no problem, but am I understanding this correctly in that I will not be able to get all the digital cable channels, only the ones that are unencrypted? If that's the case, how can I get all of them, do I need to get another set-top box, or is there something else I can do? Like I said before, we have Comcast, and knowing them I wouldn't doubt that I would be lacking many of my favorite channels if I had to depend on Clear QAM.
Also, if you have any other recommendations as far as the tuner card goes, let me know, if I can get by cheaper and still have decent quality then I'd be willing to consider that (i.e. if the ATSC tuner wouldn't even be needed and a basic tuner would work pretty much just as well). Thanks for any help!

Anyways, here's my situation:
1) For the next eight months, I will have analog cable where I am staying for my internship, but this is the easy part - I should be able to just get any old TV tuner card and I'll get all the channels no problem by just taking a coax cable from the wall to my card, right?
2) When I get back to school, at my apartment we have Comcast Digital Cable and we also pay extra for HD channels and such. I would at the very least want to be able to view all of the channels (doesn't have to be HD, but that would be a plus). So, what would I need in order to first just view the channels on my computer regardless of SD/HD, and secondly (optionally) get them in HD?
The tuner that I was planning on getting that I thought would get the job done was an AverMedia M780 (ATSC/NTSC/QAM - I'd post a link but I'm not allowed to yet). It'll do the analog no problem, but am I understanding this correctly in that I will not be able to get all the digital cable channels, only the ones that are unencrypted? If that's the case, how can I get all of them, do I need to get another set-top box, or is there something else I can do? Like I said before, we have Comcast, and knowing them I wouldn't doubt that I would be lacking many of my favorite channels if I had to depend on Clear QAM.
Also, if you have any other recommendations as far as the tuner card goes, let me know, if I can get by cheaper and still have decent quality then I'd be willing to consider that (i.e. if the ATSC tuner wouldn't even be needed and a basic tuner would work pretty much just as well). Thanks for any help!