23" Cinema Display hook up to DirecTV receiver?

I have tried hooking up my 23" Cinema display directly to my HD DirecTV receiver. My DirecTV receiver has HDMI output. So I bought a HDMI to DVI adapter. I was not able to get a picture on the display. The monitor was continusly flashing the power LED three consecutive times. My DirecTV receiver supports these resoultions: 480i/480p/720p/1080i. Is it a resolution problem?
Should I be able to do this? I thought that LCD displays could be used as a TV monitor? Am I wrong in this assumption?

There are two big barriers to this working. One is that the DirectTV box's output is likely protected by HDCP. The ACD can't perform the required HDCP handshake and so the DirectTV box will not output a signal.
The second problem is that Apple's displays have an architecture that is unique in the world of monitors. They don't have conventional multi-sync capabilities and can only work from one fixed format, fixed frequency resolution. They can't run from ATSC compatible signals like the ones you listed.

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