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HDMI to DVI Cable

If I use a cable with a DVI head at one end and HDMI at the other end, would this cancel out the benefits/advantages of both formats? The cable would be connecting the HDMI output of the DVD player and DVI input of the display projector.

Any advice from knowledgable folks would be much appreciated.
ryder

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hudsonhawk
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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.
hudsonhawk
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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.
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