Originally Posted by
rt1flea
DVI and HDMI are electrically the same signal for video with different connectors. Connect the DVI output on the server to the HDMI input on the TV using either a DVI to HDMI cable or a DVI to HDMI adapter and a regular HDMI cable. You can get an adapter setup that will inject audio into the HDMI signal too if you want.
Correct - DVI connectors / cables are a bit of an anomaly as they can carry an analog signal (compatible with VGA) and a digital signal (compatible with HDMI). You can see this here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface
This is why you can get very cheap VGA-DVI adapters as well as HDMI-DVI adapters, as they're just joining the relevant analog (for VGA) or digital (for HDMI) pins. HDMI to VGA is much more complicated due to the D/A conversion that needs to happen.
A DVI-HDMI cable should work fine here, and provide better picture quality as a bonus.