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Noob question about HDTV on PC

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Ok, there doesn't seem to be any difference here between regular Digital Cable and the HDTV price wise, but they do use different Motorola boxes.

I don't have an HDTV, but I do have a VP171b, which as far as I remember is capable of 720p HDTV.

So...if I got the HDTV set top box for digital cable, would I still be able to use it on my Sony Wega (not HDTV) as regular digital cable? Would I then be able to run any cable line into an ATI HDTV Wonder and get the HD signal on it?
 
From what I understand you do not need the HDTV digital cable box just the HDTV wonder card. The cable line would come into the wall and then go into a two way splitter. One split would go to a regular digital cable box and the other split would go to your HDTV wonder card which would decode the HDTV signal from the cable. I dont think the cable companies output a seperate HDTV signal over their lines they just give out the different boxes based on the customers needs but I may be wrong. I myself am looking to do exactly the same thing you are so I hope all I need is the splitter and the HDTV wonder.
 
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