<p>there was one this morning if I remembered correctly... but anyways I was wondering what kind of output jack is it in? I have a dvi monitor so what do I need to get hd channels onto that...</p>
<p>DVI monitor - as in external? If you have a tv-tuner that accepts HD signals through your computer, it should be fine. (the cable is analog) it's a big white circle with a hole in the center. Standard AV. or RF i mean.</p>
<p>yeah I have external monitor I plan on using for my ps3 but I guess I do need a tuner to get hd channels... how much are hd tuners these days?</p>
<p>Not sure, i have a regular analog tuner.. like 10 bucks. you can get fancy, pinnacle runs for 100+. Check out you local Fry's electronics.</p>
<p>i dunno about the details...but an argument, in which i took part, was started after a misunderstanding...guess they deleted it</p>
<p>its a regular tv antenna coax cable jack.</p>
<p>you need a TV tuner for your computer. they have HD capable ones, i think they're pretty pricey (~$200?). they have like....'TV boxes' that you just hook up to the monitor and use that as a TV. not sure if there are HD versions of those. but a PC TV tuner is better because you can just have the tv window off to the side as you do other stuff, and theres DVR (aka recording) capability.</p>
<p>make sure you have plenty of processing power to process all of that realtime hi def video. try to find a tuner with hardware encoding so your computer doesnt have to encode the video.</p>
<p>ok, after looking into this more, it seems USB HDTV tuners lack QAM tuners. QAM is the way unscrambled digital tv signals are sent through analog cable TV, which is what the dorms have.</p>
<p>so if you want HDTV without an HDTV, you need a desktop PC and a PCI HDTV tuner with NTSC/ATSC/QAM capability. </p>
<p>if you dont have a desktop and therefore must use an USB HDTV tuner, you need a standalone HDTV antenna to grab the over the air ATSC HDTV signals. what sucks is you need to switch the signal source (antenna vs cable) whenever you switch between watching HDTV and regular cable channels.</p>
<p>lmao so costly, i'll just watch hd on my roomate's tv then since he said he'll buy a tv and use my monitor for ps3...</p>