Tivo... A few questions

Hey guys!

I have a few simple questions...

How is Tivo able to record digital cable? Does it somehow communicate with the digital cable box?


I see that they have some devices out for watching tv on a Mac... Can you hook any of these devices up to a digital cable box and still have them work right?


Basicly, I want to watch and record tv on my apple and I have digital cable...

I know you could hook up the cable box to a regular tv cable device... but then you would not be able to record shows in the future... You would have to change the station on the cablebox... (You know what I am saying?)

I don't want to have to use the cablebox to change the stations... Is there anyway to do this?

The cable box is doing the decoding of the signal then passes it off to the Tivo as an analog signal. Unless you are talking about the new one recently announced or a version put out by a cable company.

So you should be able to hook any device up to the cable box. But you wouldn't be able to come straight out of the wall into the Mac device since there is nothing to decode it. Still changing the channels is a different story unless the device you are looking at has or supports an ir blaster.

Digital cable is still a pain to deal with in the DIY DVR world.