Connecting to Digital TV receiver?

Hi,
This is a bit of a random question...
My ISP (Shaw Cable - Canada) gave me free digital cable with my wireless. However, I dont have a TV and would like to watch TV through my computer. I have no idea what connectors I need to plug the receiver into my computer... or if this is even possible.
The receiver has the classic 3 RCA connections: Left/Right Audio (white & red) and Yellow Video but my MBP has the mini display port. Are there cables that I can get? I have a mini display to VGA adapter that I use for presentations... Can I use that as an intermediary?
Here is a photo of the back of the receiver:
http://gallery.me.com/maxdfeldman#100018
thanks!

I can't imagine why your "digital TV receiver" only has antiquated analog outputs, but that appears to be the case. I don't know of any way you can feed analog video into your MBP without an analog-to-digital converter box, which will connect to a USB or FireWire port. The mini-Displayport is for output only; nothing can be fed in through it.
There will be no problem feeding the analog audio from your receiver into the headphone or audio-in port of your MBP (depending on which MBP model you have).

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