Home Theater Problems

Hello all - I just purchased a Yamaha A/V receiver (RX-V373) on clearance from Best Buy and I'm having some issues. I have a 50-inch Panasonic plasma TV and a DirecTV receiver. If I run HDMI from the DirecTV reciver to the Yamaha and then connect the Yamaha to the TV, my satellite picture is purple. Note that I had a 15-foot HDMI cable that is about a foot short, so I connected it to a 6-foot cable with an HDMI adaptor.
My other option is to tie the satellite to the TV via HDMI and to the A/V receiver for audio via a digital audio cable. This seems to work well enough, but I've read online that the HDMI option would provide better performance.
Any thoughts on why I'm getting the purple picture and whether or not I should just go with the latter setup vs. the HDMI setup?
Thanks in advance!

Hydro gave you some pointers on the HDMI cables. The site I use sells 30ft cables for 26 dollars vs a Monster branded cable for 200 dollars. And there will be no noticiable performance difference between the two. So again dont let anyone try to fool you into believing the "Monster difference".
As far as audio cable goes I am going to assume you are going to use TOSLINK(Optical) instead of the digital COAX. Once again cables now there is no difference. A optical toslink from that same website that sells it for 1.50 will perform exactly the same as a Monster toslink that sells for 50.

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hi sotim01,
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