Right, so this is the HDMI / HD Ready test platform we'll use today. We have the nifty Samsung 43" HD screen with HDMI and we're goin to insert the Galaxy HDMI card into the HTPC next to it.

BTW people... HTPC means Home Theater PC. It's a regular PC like any other PC yet dedicated to the task of media playback. It just a regular PC. As you can see... I like silence... the PC is passively water-cooled with the Zalman kit.

So have a peek at the HDMI connector on the graphics card. Much smaller and more convenient than DVI, HDMI is a USB-like digital video connector that carries the same digital video signals as DVI but with the added advantage of conveying a sound bitstream.

Copy protected with HDCP so you can't pirate high-quality digital video, it's compatible with DVI through DVI/HDMI adaptors. No image superiority of one over the other. HDMI is an evolving standard and many incompatibilities in the digital "handshake" of the HDCP protection code still exist between HDMI-connected components, especially when routed through an A/V receiver or A/V processor.

Right, here we have the card ready to be fired up in the HTPC.