The Motorola HD boxes Shaw uses are notorious for having crap picture quality when comes to non HD regular cable. I have both the non HD and the HD boxes and the non HD box actually has a better picture with it comes to non HD programming. Move it over to an HD channel and of course, the HD box blows it away.
The box doesn't have to be before the splitter, but you will only have digital cable for the TV it's hooked up to. The other will only have regular cable.
If you're going to get a digital cable terminal, do it right and get the HD version. It'd be a waste to only get the regular one.
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