[Mark was here]

The cable thing is crazy. The Movie Studios helped design the cables (HDMI) for DRM. I would like to avoid the HDMI route, I saw a HDMI to DVI cable at Micro Center a while back. Any thoughts?

[sharpee]

The cable thing is really away to protect copyrights. The signal across the cable can be encrypted to prevent piracy. the standard is HDMI HDCP with the HDCP being some really nasty requirments for the devices that can connect using the standard. If you do go the home theater route with a receiver like an ONKYO or Sony between your cable box and the display for the surround sound there can be a problem. The cable box may not recognize the receivers (repeater function) and downgrade or corrupt the signal. Bottom line if your looking at a setup check the release level of the HDMI/HDCP software 1.1 was the first 1.2 is common and 1.3 seems to be coming out now. I also so something in the standard that requires the device software not to be upgradeable.

I still have not upgraded from our 20 year old set.

[Chances Are]

I bought an HDMI-DVI cable for the Samsung 1080i we bought a while back. I’m using it with a Samsung DTB-H260F HDTV receiver/tuner, and it works great! If your TV has a DVI interface, this cable should work well.

Let us know how it works out for you.

Happy New Year!!!

CA....