Does Charter do DVI? - Engadget HD

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Frank @ Mar 31st 2006 6:53PM

Charter subscriber - Worcester, MA

I have a Scientific Atlanta 8300 series HD cable box. I have the DVI output and tried it out. It was NOT disabled. It actually worked.

I had a previous box that had the DVI output locked out. ???

Also, Charter never told me about setting up the HD output feature on the box. If you look up the manual for this cable box, their is a procedure you go through to setup the output resolution to match your television. You have to shut the cable box off, then hit something like guide and info at the same time. This menu pops up that asks you what type of resolution your HD set displays(480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i). Before running this menu this the box was displaying everything in 1080i, even the 720P stations. So watch out for this!

Another strange thing that I found, and I don't know if anyone else has experienced this while they were messing around with their outputs, but, I found that the DVI output looked crappy when compared to the component output. I was very surprised by this. I would have expected the opposite. I used a DVI to HDMI cable.

Kinda weird. Anybody experience this?

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