My current MythTV setup is receiving an analog signal from my cable TV provider, Ziggo. We have digital TV coming down the same cable but my existing MythTV system is not setup to receive this and the way we watch digital TV is with the usual small set-top box with the provided card inserted in the front. So what I want to achieve is to build a new system that will be able to play and record digital TV. This system will need to take the security card which is normally in the set-top box so it can decode the digital channels. There are the a couple of pieces of hardware to start planning with:
- Tuner card – like the KNC-One DVB-C , available here
- CI card module – for example KNC-One CI-Module, here
- CI card reader – like the Alphacrypt CI
The CI card module connects to the tuner card with the card reader plugging into the CI module. The tuner card will obviously require a PCI slot and the CI module needs a PCI slot but purely as a place holder, there are no ‘connectors’ on the card.
From what I hear this should all work and other people have used similar setups.
