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Message: [QUOTE="Pembroke, post: 144894, member: 94754"]My goal is to build a DVR to record cable TV programs.  My cable provider is a small municipal telephone company, and when I started subscribing last year, they just ran a coax cable through the wall of my apartment.  I connected it to my late-model TV, and presto! The thrills and yawns of the extended basic package.So where does a DVR fit into this arrangement? Very few of them seem to have a coax input.  It's digital cable, AFAICT--it gets pixelated every now and again.  I suspect getting a cable box is the way to go.  Can I purchase something like that, and avoid renting one from my cable provider?[/QUOTE]