Hooking up cable service to monitor?

[kdimitt]

I am going to start college this fall and I have a Dell 2408 WFP 24" monitor that I plan on using for gaming and movies, and of course hooking it up to my computer. Each room offers free cable service (through a coaxial cable connection in the wall). I'm reasonably certain I can hook this up to my monitor somehow but I am not sure how to go about it. Yes I realize you can get tuners to hook up to my computer which can then hook up to my monitor, but I am not interested in that solution as this will be shared and I don't want to be reliant on my computer for cable service. I would like to know how I can directly (by that I mean without a computer) hook cable into my monitor. These are the connections options for the monitor I have, any help that can be offered would be much appreciated.

CONNECTIVITY
High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
Digital Visual Interface - 2 Digital (DVI-D) with High Definition Content Protection (HDCP)
DisplayPort
Video Graphics Array (VGA)
Component Video
Separate Video (S-Video)
Composite Video