[docmcr]

I have been searching for an answer to this one for about 3 days now without any luck.

I have AT&T's U-verse installed in my home. On my TV in my computer room I have a Motorola VIP1200 (1200) set-top box. My TV in this room is very old and my computer monitor is my preferred way to watch TV at this time since it has a better res. as well as stereo speakers. I want to be able to watch TV on the computer instead of the TV.

The 1200 has 2 USB 2.0 connectors on it, but I cannot find out their purpose. It would be simple, and cheap, if I could just connect either a USB reversing cable or a USB cable with 2 male ends from the box to my computer if possible, I just don't know which one to buy. My other choice is to get a new board for the computer like a Dazzle HDTV ot WinTV card, but the expense would be more.

Any comments or suggestions, which cable to use or other suggestions would be helpful.

TYA
docmcr

[JohnWill]

I'm going to guess that you're out of luck with the USB connectors. My Motorola boxes with my Verizon FiOS TV have USB jacks too, but they're not useful for anything.

I think the HDTV board is the way to go.

[case31]

I just finished setting my computer and tv up with my u-verse service. I did this: I bought a dvi switcher, found on ebay for $40 (inc. shipping), an HDMI to DVI cable, and an extra DVI cable. Works like a charm. The sound was kind of a pain though. I have the sound going from rca's out to the midi line in on my sound card. My switcher has audio inputs, but I only get sound from the right speakers and the sub.
I'm trying to decide if I want to get fancy with the sound. What I would have to do is run optical out to a toslink digital coax converter, run digital coax to the switcher input (that's what it has), run the digital coax from switcher output to a digital i/o module, then go coax to midi from the module to my sound card input. I figure that will run me another $50 or so, getting everything on ebay.