HDMI to DVI adapter?

HudsonHawk-

could the color space problem be solved by running at 1080i instead of 1080p? Just curious as to what you were outputting at when the problems occurred. Since it didn't work out for you, what have you done instead?

Thanks

I got one (HDMI to DVI) made by MIT. It works great with my Sony PS3. Running audio separately is fine. Although at 1080i (that my TV is only capable of), the picture still looks really great.

AQ makes good quality DVI->HDMI and HDMI->DVI versions of the adapter. I use one of each in my system to/from my Lumagen Scaler and RPTV with good results. I don't have the color space issue outputting 480p from my transport into my scaler and then scaling to 1080p and using 1:1 bitmapping mode (my DLP RPTV supports this) which allows the scaler to controller all rendering. 7.5IRE pedestal is used throughout.

Rreckstad,

Sorry I missed your reply.

Changing the output resolution didn't seem to help the issue. My understanding is that the Denon 1920 that I use has only outputs at the extended colorspace supported by HDMI, and doesn't support DVI's slightly reduced colorspace (I think there's only 3 values difference between them).

Consequently I switched back to component. The DVI input on the TV is sitting unused at the moment.

Some DVD players let you select the color palette to use, and some may autodetect. Just something to watch for - if you notice what appears to be pixelation during dark passages you'll know exactly what the problem is (took me forever to figure it out!)

Here's a good explanation of how these colorspace issues crop up when going HDMI -> DVI:

http://archive2.avsforum.com/avs-vb/archive/index.php/t-486428.html