My dad just bought a new HTDV DLP television. He also got a new dvd player that upsamples its output to HD. The dvd player came with a DVI cable to connect to the tv, but the cable is about 2 feet too ...

HDMI is the de facto standard for connecting a monitor to a Mac and has been for many years, but there are many older Macs out there that can't be easily connected to that modern connector. Here's how ...