I get AT&T Digital Cable here in Schaumburg, IL. The service is good and for the most part, the picture I get on my Toshiba 57HX81 is surprisingly clear.
I was wondering what the advantages were, if any, to feeding my cable coax (which now goes from outside to cable box to TV) from outside into my Sony HDTV receiver, then to my cable box then to my TV...or from outside to cable box, to receiver to TV?
At the moment ATT doesn't offer any HD programming, although they have announced this Summer they will be adding Showtime, HBO, FOX and CBS in HD thru their digital cable.
To receive that HD broadcast from them they've said you have to rent a "box" at 10.95/ month...it would be nice to find out that any STB (mine in particular) would work and I could save myself 10.95/month.
Unfortunately, everyone I've talked to at my local ATT office (including a good friend who installs ATT cable out here) knows nothing, or so close to nothing they are no help.
I was wondering what the advantages were, if any, to feeding my cable coax (which now goes from outside to cable box to TV) from outside into my Sony HDTV receiver, then to my cable box then to my TV...or from outside to cable box, to receiver to TV?
At the moment ATT doesn't offer any HD programming, although they have announced this Summer they will be adding Showtime, HBO, FOX and CBS in HD thru their digital cable.
To receive that HD broadcast from them they've said you have to rent a "box" at 10.95/ month...it would be nice to find out that any STB (mine in particular) would work and I could save myself 10.95/month.
Unfortunately, everyone I've talked to at my local ATT office (including a good friend who installs ATT cable out here) knows nothing, or so close to nothing they are no help.