Hmm, well, there are plenty of HDTVs where DVI-HDMI is the way to go, then maybe optical digital audio to boot. That would be far superior, imho. If you're looking at X360 or PS3 gaming, where it's pure HDMI, you'd best hope that you have a monitor or HDTV that has more than one HDMI if you're gonna be doing that, or there are mobos that supply HDMI ports as well... Dunno that you have HDTV Tuner cards that use HDMI, tho.