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Cable TV Set Top Box + TV Tuner Question
Hey there,
Im new to this technology so apologies if I ask a dumb question!
I recently installed a TV tuner to my secondary PC-DVico Fusion HDTV 7 RT Express. Connecting to the set top box, I thought ALL my cable channels would appear but I discovered the encrypted channels (ie the good ones) were blocked.
To get around this, I connected the set top box to the TV tuner via component cables. Now ALL my cable channels are visible on my PC.
The quality is OK but definitely NOT the same quality as before. My questions :
1. Is there any way to get BETTER quality pictures? ex high quality component cables or using a HDMI input TV tuner.
2. I noticed the card was using my HD3870 graphics card drivers. If I upgraded to a 5xxx series card (ie Directx11), would this improve picture quality?
3. Does Directx have any relationship to picture quality of TV channels?
Thanks in advance.