For people who have equipment that puts out DVI-D signals, when they use a DVI-D to HDMI adapter type cable, sometimes the equipment works, sometimes it doesn't. This is attributed to the DVI-D signal source which either (as a simple way to describe it) is missing data or has too much data when it comes to the HDMI standardization. Some displays can compensate for this, some can't.

I was wondering if there was some kind of box or cable that will take a DVI-D source and apply "HDMI standardization" (if you will) to it to make it compatibe with a larger number of displays, thus solving some users problems of getting DVI-D to work on their HDMI displays.

DVI and HDMI use the same way to transport data, TMDS. Newer HDMI implementations can pass higher data rates than DVI but that shouldn't affect DVI->HDMI. I don't know where you got your information about missing or too much data or what you mean by it. The initial EDID is definitely different but once the HDCP "handshake" is done there shouldn't be any issues unless you have a flakey cable or trying to send data too far given the cable type and length. The most issues with DVI and HDMI is HDMI sources connecting to DVI displays. The 2 biggest complaints are the HDCP handshake has problems or the HDMI source doesn't get to know all the supported resolutions on the DVI display.

larry

The 2 biggest complaints are the HDCP handshake has problems or the HDMI source doesn't get to know all the supported resolutions on the DVI display.

That's basically what I mean. :)