HDMI to DVI Cable

If your display device is the one with the DVI input (i.e. you are going from an HDMI source to a DVI display) you may run into color space issues. I had this problem with my plasma using an upscaling DVD player.

Basically, HDMI has just a tiny bit larger color palette than DVI, so a DVI display may display clipping at the extreme ends of the color spectrum. You'll see this in the form of black level clipping, where really dark areas of the image get blocky and ugly looking.

Took me forever to figure out what that was. Ultimately I had to switch to component for DVD.

Thanks for all helpful responses. Now I know it's not all roses with HDMI to DVI with some members here experiencing glitches.

I should mention that it might not be a problem depending on how DVI-friendly your source device is. Some of them have a "DVI" mode where it switches the color palette to match that of DVI. It just happens that my Denon universal player has no such mode.

I just upgraded projector from Panasonic PTL-300U (which is only high def compatable) to Panasonic PT-AE900U (which is high def). I'm using a DVI-D cable with DVI-D terminations on both ends. I am using two DVI-D female to HDMI male connectors, purchased at Monoprice.com for - get this! only $4.74 each! Sure beats $25-30 at brick and mortal stores! - since neither the Oppo DVD player nor the projector have DVI) and it works fabulously. BTW, some have suggested that anything over fifteen feet can wreck the quality of the DVI signal, however I have zero issues with distance effecting the quality of the picture using HDMI, and I believe I installed a 25' length DVI-D cable when I built the room.

The link below discusses an odd problem that I had not encountered before:

a faulty 5v pin shorting an HDMI cable

This supports the matra of always test, test, TEST.