Comcast cable HDTV in Atlanta

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Just yesterday, Comcast brought over a Motorola HDTV cable box. Comcast just in the past few days rolled out the service in this area. The cable box is connected via componant video inputs.
My monitor is an older model HDTV monitor, TSK3092WF, a 30 inch 16:9 tube. In order to watch the HTDV 1080i channels, I have to manually switch the television monitor to DTV mode in order to view the picture. In the standard analog and expanded digital channels, the televison has to be switched to DVD non-progressive scan input. There is only one set of componant video inputs on the television that the DTV & DVD (480p) inputs share. The native resolutions that this model accepts are 480p & 1080i. 720p is not supported.
It should be mentioned that the HDTV cable box supplies both the standard defination/analog/expanded digital channels as well as the HDTV channels.
Do other HDTV cable viewers have to switch imputs in order to view 1080i channels? Also, when watching DVD, I use a machine that is 480p progressive output that must be viewed in the DTV mode and not the DVD mode as the picture actually is double, side by side and distorted.
I suspect that the cable box outputs a 480i signal instead of 480p and 1080i for HDTV. This must be the problem.
Hopefully more experienced HDTV owners will shed some light on the subject.
My thanks in advance.

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Topic - Comcast cable HDTV in Atlanta - usafwso 12:44:16 03/22/03 (0)

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