![]() Thinking "outside the box" ideas (instead of hardwiring tuners to your RPi): Maybe you have a TV tuner with an infrared wireless remote control? It should be challenging enough, but quite achieveable to interface a USB IR transmitter and install LIRC ( on your RPi to control your TV tuner as though you had a remote control, but using the RPi to do so. I like the first reply's suggestion to "avoid unnecessary headaches", but if it's something you want to do, just to see if it could be done (whether or not it's cost effective or makes any sense to others), then go for it! We canceled our home cable TV years ago and just subscribed to the streamed-only Netflix (which your college might not allow?), but we're much happier not spending 1/3 of every hour getting pummeled by commercials. If you want to watch TV using your RPi, it would be easier to use an SD card with RaspBMC installed and get used to watching videos from the Internet instead of cable TV (seriously lacking live sports channels though). I recently got a 19" Sansui monitor that has its own internal TV tuner and 4 other inputs (VCR, Componet, HDMI and PC(i.e. ![]() ![]() ![]() You might not even need to connect the tuner to the RPi if your computer monitor has multiple source inputs.
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