Do I have to have a cable card or will it work with my current set top box?
1801239
You need a cable card to interface to your provider. Cable card lets your Tivo look like a STbox to the provider. I have Verizon FIOS cable card is an M-Card and is $4.99 + tax monthly.
1801240
Typically you need a cable card from your Cable company. This is to descramble the incoming shows so you can view. Sometimes you need a tuning adapter as well which is usually free. The cable card will run you $1-$3 per month typically.
2185801
No, this unit only works on existing cable services. It basically would replace the set top box that the cable company would rent you.
1349805
Can you not get the HD channels on the cablecard because they are on high-number channels? I am worried about that too, since our HD channels are all up near 290 - 320, and the TV specs say it can get CATV channels from 1 - 125 only. I am about to give up on trying to find a cablecard TV. I may go ahead and rent an HD box (and keep the regular digital box attached to my Dual TiVo).
2213758
We have direct tv and it works fine with the box, if that's what you are referring to.
884728
Yes, whatever you have hooked up now should work. The connection to the T.V is a simple HDMI cable.
2101013
We also have cable, we had to have a small cable connector box in the cabinet above. You might need to call your cable co to ask them if this is what you need also...
379608
Yes cable. No card. You don't need a card for it. And if you have a wireless router you don't need the cable either.
1590959
AS with cable you need today the Digital to Analog converter box then yes will work
126742
yes. BUT, you will only be able to watch what the SENDING tv is on.( one tv must be connected to the cable company box)
557577
No cables - you'll need at least 1 hdmi or composite to connect to cable box - others if additional device connections
1490209
In response to Charles' question regarding an HD set-top box, you can rent Comcast's HD box and it will work fine. You do not have to use a proprietary set-top box. You can also buy a box but the quality and reliability will depend on the brand, for which you should do some additional research, since I'm not an expert in this filed. But, before you spend additional money on either, get the set, hook it up, select your settings and see if you really need HD reception. I know that some disagree but I believe that this set offers HD quality in an SD mode.
1453215
Not too sure about the cable box, but it should be fine with the TV. It did work with my Comcast cable box, I would assume that the Verizon box should have codes as well. I did return mines, however, since it wouldn't operate my home theatre system.
990790
Yes you will need a cable card to make this work. If you are just wanting TV on your computer there are several other options to look at including http://www.hauppauge.com/. Hope that helps.
1545746
You can hook it up but if your cable box has hdcp encryption which I'm sure it does use you will not be able to watch tv from it. You will need to get a dvi-hdmi converter to bypass that part of it.
1349808
You get the card from your cable company instead of a set-top box, and then plug it directly into the TV. However, what I've found is that there are restrictions that don't make CableCards that attractive (at least for now). For example, I have Comcast, and if you use a CableCard for their service you can't get On-Demand programming, any Pay-Per-View stuff, or their graphical program guide. To me, not being able to get this stuff kind of defeats the purpose of having digital cable nowadays.
1130727
Yes the cable company will give you a card that you put in the TiVo box that makes the fit custom for guide and channel line up
637076
I have the TiVo HD, and no, you do not need a cable card - I just don't get the digital channels, and obviously no HD. Time Warner keeps changing certain channels to digital only, though, which is a pain and I may have to add cable cards someday. The highest channel I get is 99, and no hyphenated channels. Our digital service doesn't have hyphenated channels either, though.