Playing my ps3 with my imac??

i have purchase my IMAC 27 inch sometime last year. I recently bought a cable(MINI displayport to HDMI adapter) in which i thought that would help me connect to my Ps3 but it is not working is their any other way to do this???

I had exactly the same experience on the Frontrow. It took like 5 minutes until frontrow actually responded. During the unresponsive time, I wasn't able to access security pane at all. After I open the recently updated itunes and I found out that I had to press accept the agreement term, Frontrow just came out with many other actions that I haved pressed on the remotes. I guess Frontrow will not quickly respond if you don't have itunes and other programs running. And in my case, since I didn't sign the agreement term, the frontrow just didn't respond to anything I pressed on the remote.
As a new mac user, it was frustrating at first, especially when you've just open the imac right out of the box. Having these little problems actually ruined my first impression quite a bit. After having it run flawlessly for almost a week, my good impression started to come back though. Now I really like it!

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    This has been asked a number of times here since the intro of the 27" iMac. The answer is very expensive US$149 or more converters and sometimes even more expensive to maintain the resolutions that you seek.
    http://lowendmac.com/ed/bashur/09db/dvi-to-mini-displayport.html
    Dah•veed

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