Can I watch Cable TV on my MacBook?

So I have a MacBook (Snow Leaopard) and I have cable TV, but I don't have a TV. I wanted to know if there was anyway I could plug my laptop to the cable so that I can watch cable TV on my laptop.

...I know it only works with Windows, so I could just use it on my Windows partition, right?
You could, but do you really want to have to leave OSX every time you want to watch TV?
If you do decide to use a Windows tuner, make sure your Boot Camp partition has a lot of free hard drive space. TV tuners work by taking the video stream and saving it to a temporary file, and displaying the contents of the file in real time. (This is how they're able to pause live TV.) But that means that you need a lot of scratch space on the hard drive. And Windows really doesn't like not having free space. I'd recommend always having 10GB or more of free space when watching TV. I've done it on less, but Windows tended to freeze.

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