Hooking up to a 37" Phillips LCD TV

I just bought my MacBook Pro and i am curious if i can hook it up to my 37" Phillips LCD TV and still be able to use the ambientlight function that is on my TV I would be using a DVI to HDMI cable to connect. Is it possible to do this?

Can't see why not. You can connect the mac, no problem and the ambilight is a function of the tv. Unless the tv manual says that ambilight doesn't work with hdmi I'd expect it to work.
Best of luck.

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