Why did my external monitor stop working

I bought a brand new iMac on Saturday. Came home. Migrated from my MBAir (mid-2011). Plugged in my Samsung 27' TV (via Moshi HDMI to Thunderbolt converter) and it worked just great. Beautiful picture on both iMac 27 AND Samsung...Until this morning. Now, external monitor doesn't work. I've done various resets (per forum posts) NOTHING else has changed...Any ideas?

By the way...My MBA doesn't work (suddenly) either!

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I have tried resetting the pram, resetting the SMC, booting with extensions off.
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The screen does not go blue if I wiggle or flex the monitor cable.

I see this in the windowserver.log after reboot, login with shift-key, and the external monitor connected.
There might be a clue here but I don't have anything to compare it to since I haven't collected these data when the external monitor was working.
I'd be curious to see the same data from the windowserver.log for somebody else with a MacBook Pro with an external monitor connected that does work.
You can view this log with the console application located: /Applications/Utilities/console.
If you are willing to share these data please reboot, and hold the shift-key down when logging in to disable extensions (thanks). If you look at the time just when the desktop appears when you end up looking at the windowserver.log you'll be able to see the windowserver starting up about 10 seconds prior to this time.
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Mar 22 21:31:27 [110] MPFinalizeInitialization: Display 0x4272dc0 unit 0 alias mask 0x5
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Mar 22 21:31:27 [110] GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01024300, GL mask 0x00000004, accelerator 0x00003c0b, unit 2, caps 0x00000003, vram 288 MB
Mar 22 21:31:27 [110] GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01024300, GL mask 0x00000004, texture units 8, texture max 8192, viewport max {8192, 8192} extensions 0x0000000f
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Your on the right track when you said "I haven't yet been able to get another laptop or monitor to test the other components to make sure the monitor is ok.". Also include a different cable in that scenario, if you can.
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but didnt quite understand :
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it just booted up and asked if i wanted to install another copy of OSX.
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