Yes it will work.

You can buy the cables ready made (DVI to HDMI) or use a HDMI cable with a DVI to HDMI dongle on the graphics card.

Note, that often LCDs TVs are weird with HDMI from the PC. They apply some overscan (image is too large and stuff is missing).

If this happens, you can see if the TV has an option to turn this off, sometimes it's one of the HDMI ports that are for PCs. You can also compensate on the PC through software.

If all fails, just use VGA 🤣

Thanks for the reply. I think I'm gonna jump in and order some cables tonight. Been promising the Missus some HD movie nights in for ages.

And the best part, can't wait to watch some HD disney with the little one when the other half goes out to her boring parties.

Thanks for the advice. 😁

I use HDMI cables with just a DVI dongle as the thin HDMI wire just looks nicer compared to a thick "old fashioned" monitor cable 😉

Tetrium wrote:

I use HDMI cables with just a DVI dongle as the thin HDMI wire just looks nicer compared to a thick "old fashioned" monitor cable 😉

I have both and both work for me too.

I just went to Fry's Electronics and got the cheapest DVI to HDMI cable they had, don't pay for something you do not need, Monster Cables are no better then joe-generic brands except the labeling 😉

I always have to 🤣 at expensive HDMI cables like Monster or even Belkin.

When the sales guys talk about noise and I say to myself: Well the whole purpose of going digitial was to get rid of noise...

Now, I'm thinking about a friend of mine, that advised me to connect my PS3 to my TV using a very expensive HDMI cable, and was really sure that I would notice huge improvement in visual quality...... 🤣

Markk wrote:

Now, I'm thinking about a friend of mine, that advised me to connect my PS3 to my TV using a very expensive HDMI cable, and was really sure that I would notice huge improvement in visual quality...... 🤣

I did this thinking the same thing too, I purchased as a test, a $30.00 Belkin HDMI cable and a $9.00 joe-generic chinese brand, other then the gold plating on the outside of the connector there was no visual difference on my Samsung 40" LCD.

Even the generic cables have gold plated inside connectors.

The shielded outsode connector is for RFI/EMI shielding but I bet since it's a digitial signal there is no drop in the frequency for either cable for a 3 meter length.

I have my Comcast DVR, my PS3, my Gaming Rig all connected to the same TV.

If a digital video signal has problems they tend to be very obvious. You can get ugly blocking like that of poorly compressed video or you might see some crazy sparkly pixels. But it's not like analog and wont get washed out, static, fuzzy etc.

Personally I've yet to see a cable cause issues with a digital signal. Maybe if you are going a long distance it will become more important to have a fancy cable. I use cheap cables from Monoprice and they even have various grades of cheap cables 🤣

BigBodZod wrote:

I purchased as a test, a $30.00 Belkin HDMI cable and a $9.00 joe-generic chinese brand, other then the gold plating on the outside of the connector there was no visual difference on my Samsung 40" LCD.

Wow $9...thats expensive 🤣!
Mine cost just €3 or €4 or so and works perfectly fine.

Yeah the cable voodoo industry

Tetrium wrote:

Wow $9...thats expensive 🤣!
Mine cost just €3 or €4 or so and works perfectly fine.

I don't consider this expensive for a 3m cable, but I do consider the $30.00 charge for the Belkin cable to be expensive and the pricing went up from there 😜

What does 9 US Dollars convert to vs. Euros ?!?

BigBodZod wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Wow $9...thats expensive 🤣!
Mine cost just €3 or €4 or so and works perfectly fine.

I don't consider this expensive for a 3m cable, but I do consider the $30.00 charge for the Belkin cable to be expensive and the pricing went up from there 😜

What does 9 US Dollars convert to vs. Euros ?!?

Was a joke hehe 😜

I think one Euro is roughly 1 1/3 Dollars atm.

Sorry, I'm fighting a nasty chest cold and the meds have me somewhat loopy and drained 😜

Nice to know about the exchange rate however.

I ordered a mix and match of cables and dongle to try them out. Bottom line I only need 1 cable for our own media centre, but as I'm building a couple more I'll need the others.

Meantime I will test all the cables with my machine and let you know the difference.

Prices of my items range from £2.33 - £11.99 dongles and £.3.03 to £16.99 cables. 🙁