Recomendation on watching cable TV on VLC

[JZA]

but I have a cable bill that sells me cable TV and internet, I dont have a TV so the cablebox is just sitting there collecting dust. I want to know if there is any hardware solution that can interact with that box and I can interact with it using VLC through the wifi network.
The cable box looks something like this.
I have been thinking that maybe another box could do the trick, but might be pricy, also just getting a TV card could come through but this is a laptop and rather want to access it through Wifi.
Also use Linux so a software solution might not be compatible.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

More so than VLC, it depends what kind of output(s) the box has, and what kind of input(s) your computer has.

The one you linked outputs through copy-protected analog and HDMI. And normally you won't find any corresponding inputs on the computer, though you could probably buy a PC video capture card.

In general, to watch TV on a computer, a TV tuner for PC is the best option. But depending on the country, the operator and the copy protection scheme, it might or might not be possible. Personally, I wired my computer to the cable with a DVB-C tuner USB stick. But I can only watch free-to-air channels.