[Las Vegas Dave]

I don't intend to go into great detail about HDMI itself (its specifications, various forms, history, future direction, etc.) except how it applies to helping you adjust to and use the technology. There are many, many excellent resources already out there that go into detail about HDMI and you can easily access them on the internet. A Google-type search on the term "HDMI" will produce a wealth of background information and I refer you to that. There's everything from Wikipedia to vendor sites offering some information (take what you see with a grain of salt, keeping in mind the authors and the agendas). Most of it is very informative. My personal favorite writer on this topic is my friend, Rodolfo La Maestra, who wrote an excellent series of articles for HDTV Magazine (web-based) in his role as Senior Technical for that publication. You can find these articles located at:

http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/articles/articles-author.php?author=Rodolfo+La+Maestra&id=16

They come highly recommended and will provide you with a strong foundation in HDMI in a lucid and comprehensive fashion. It's a ten part series beginning with the July 25, 2006 article and well worth perusing. It is my intention to focus on connecting all the parts of your particular HDMI-equipped system by providing some of the basics and then turning to a couple of possible solutions from a few selected manufacturers. This is by no means a complete summary of what's available out there. The landscape is changing too fast to provide such information without it quickly becoming dated.

(NOTE: the thread posted is a few months old, but very informative. I suggest that those interested click on the links provided, very informative with many photos. - LVD)

[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging the HDTV list..

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Las Vegas Dave

[megatherium]

So I hooked up my new Panasonic BD-30 blu-ray player to my Panasonic plasma TV last weekend, select the second HDMI input (to which the player is connected), and put a movie into the player. I see the blue screen, with the blu-ray logo on it, on my TV, while the disk is loading. Then suddenly, I’m watching cable TV. The TV mysteriously switched to the other HDMI input; I pushed not one button. I switched inputs, to put the player on the other HDMI input, and it still happened. This strange behavior seems to be connected to something called EZSync, which I turned off. It works properly now (and indeed, the picture quality is outstanding—none of the compression blur that “HD” cable has).

[auboy]

Thanks, Dave! Link has been bookmarked.

[Dr. Sivana]

Okay . . . back to twin lead 300-ohm cable to a Yagi antenna on the roof.

[Scutter]

Thanks for this post. It is very timely; I am moving into a house with a TV mount over teh fireplace, and I need to buy some HDMI cables long enough to fish through the wall to the TV. I was confused about whether I needed an “HDMI 1.3a” cable, and this article answered my question.