It is for off air and digital cable. I use it for off air. Haven't hooked it to cable. But ElGato says Cable systems don't encrypt digital broadcast signals yet. It does have a digital cable an off air tuner in it. And it has a Strength-Quality meter built in to make it easy to adjust an antennae. Yes it is not for satellite. Don't you have off air HDTV where you live? Off air is the best quality - true 1920 x 1080 or 720. Cable and Satellite are typically FAKE reduced resolution. Same with sets. Most are FAKE lower res interpolation schemes. -- Taylor Barcroft http://www.blogger.com/profile/11159903 New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Webcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 On Sep 26, 2005, at 3:25 PM, David DelMonte wrote: > Isnt it correct though that this unit cannot pickup encoded signals > - so that it cannot be used with a cable tv or satellite tv interface. > > David