Now I don't know what it's like in the US but here in Canuckland there is a trap for HD broadcasts. Well...not really a trap but a "I didn't think of that".

Regardless of an HD-ready set or an HD-tuner card for the PC you still have to subscribe to a service and get their decoder at a cost. For example and these prices are just plucked out of thin air for example purposes.

Step 1) Regular cable. You pay for that and it comes out of your wall.

Step 2) Digital Television (remember DTV has HD and SDTV but for now the providers are refering to the SDTV channels as Digital Television) You pay for the regular cable and now you have to buy/rent a decoder STB. Be it Satellite or cable.

Step 3) Teh full meal deal. Bigger big bucks for the HD decoder STB. Be it satellite or Cable. That can set you back 100's of dollars for the 6-10 available HD channels.

Definitely falls into the luxury spending budget.

So you might get an HD card for the PC but don't expect to plug it into the cable in the wall and immediately get HD channels.