If you hook a cable up to it, you get whatever basic channels your cable company provides. If you hook your cable box up to it, you get whatever you are tuned to with the cable box. If you hook up an antenna, you can get local TV stations.
A TV tuner card provides the componenets necessary to turn you monitor into a television. Thats really what a television is. A monitor with a built in tuner (and of course some speakers and some control cirtcuitry but you get the idea.
So the answer is, it depends on what you connect it to. Like the above poster said, If you connected it to an antenna, you'd get whatever channels the antenna recieves. If hook it up to cable, you'll get whatever channels you recieve as part of your cable service.
I have my cable line hooked up directly to my crap TV tuner. I normally get HBO and other channels with the cable box, but the tuner only gets basic cable. Good enough for me though.
I have my cable line hooked up directly to my crap TV tuner. I normally get HBO and other channels with the cable box, but the tuner only gets basic cable. Good enough for me though.coolcool23
Have you tried setting the card to channel 3 (or 4), getting a picture from the cable box, then just tuning with the cable box remote? That's what my sister does and it seems to work pretty well.
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