Mini late 2006 DVI HDMI Samsung LE26A457

A couple of people on other forums, like me, are having trouble connecting our Mac Mini DVI to HDMI on Samsung screens.
Is there a known issue? Is there a fix of some kind. It seems like the Mac Mini is very very picky about handshaking, whereas all other sources to the TV are not.
The samsung has an HDMI that is recommends using for DVI-HDMI and it still gives me a black screen.

Alan, you did get success at some point when you saw Snow Leopard on the TV. That was when your computer's System Preferences/Display preferences where likely set to "mirror.' You likely should not be using the 'mirror' setting so uncheck that option.
Turn on the HDTV, plug in the HDMI connector from your computer.
In the Display preferences, make sure your display on the computer is 1920x1200. The set the relationship of the two screens, your computer screen and your HDTV. For example drag the little display representing the TV to the right of the little display representing the computer.
Make sure the menu bar is on the little screen representing your computer. You can drag the little menu bar to the correct screen.
Go to the controls on the HDTV to select your desired video source, such as HDMI 1. You should have some signal detected.
Start a HD movie running in a window on your computer screen and then drag the window to the right off the computer screen. It should appear on the HDTV. From your computer, select the option to run the movie "full screen". Voila!
At least we hope so...

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