Nope. Coax runs straight into the wall. This apartment just has basic cable by default with no cable box necessary.
Oh, also this is under Windows 2000. I'd previously had an SAA7133 and InterVideo's media center software installed, and the tuner worked on that. Uninstalled it because it sort of blew and was incompatable with GBPVR which has in every respect proven to be the better media center software.