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• Rent an additional set-top box from your cable (or satellite) company. Here's the rundown, with an assist from Lars Felber, a product marketing manager for Elgato Systems GmbH in Munich. Even if your cable service won't tell you how to do it, there is a way to get its TV channels to your computer. And ...And you won't be stealing a thing. In my local cable company's case, that's $6.50 a month.