Quicktime to HDTV?

Hi All,
Is there a way to connect a Mac Mini with Quicktime (or ITunes) to an HDTV so that it treats the HDTV as a TV and not a computer monitor? I want the Mac Mini to send the video signal so that the HDTV will render the 1080i footage.
Currently the connection is Mac Mini->DVI->HDMI->Denon 3808ci->HDMI->Samsung HDTV.
Is there way to get the signal sent so the Samsung's processor will handle the interlaced footage much the way it does for my DirecTV?
Thanks!

one way to accomplish this is to use the DVI output from your video card with an adapter to the HDTV. there is an otion in the video project settings to output the video to "digital cinema desktop" (if you have all the components of Logic Stidio installed) This assumes that you wil only use one monitor for Logic and the second is for video display. another way is to use a firewire video output device to send the signal to the HDTV. It would be low res, but it would gve you a third output option. This is also available in the video project settings.
A quick question for you. yours is the first post I've sen related to video. I am trying to work with video on a project in Logic Pro 8. If I only import the video it seems to work okay, when I import and use the audio from the video the whole system slows to a crawl. Any experience like this? any hints for working with video in Logic 8? I am using a macbook 2gig dual core intel machine with 1 gig RAM. thanks

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