Time Warner HDTV cable box and SVGA monitors?

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Is it possible to use an SVGA monitor with Time Warner's HDTV box? I just
bought a nice flat screen monitor and want to use my old 19" monitor to
watch HDTV broadcasts.


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"Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollermonkeysnet.us> wrote in message
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> On 2004-05-25 15:10:44 -0700, "Bootstrap Bill" <wrcousert@yahoo.com> said:
>
> > Is it possible to use an SVGA monitor with Time Warner's HDTV box? I
just
> > bought a nice flat screen monitor and want to use my old 19" monitor to
> > watch HDTV broadcasts.
>
> If the cable box has a VGA output, or the monitor accepts component
> video, then yes. If you're tinking DVI, then probably not, because the
> DVI output on the cable box is copy protected. The connectors may look
> the same, but the data over them isn't.
>
Has anyone in this group tried it?

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"MTI" <mark@mc-carter.com> wrote in message
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> The Scientific Atlanta HD boxes don't have VGA out (firewire and DVI ports
> are present but not currently software activated), so you'd need a
> conversion box to take the component video to VGA

Would there be a loss of quality if I used a conversion box? How would the
results compare with an HDTV of the same size?