Impossible to field terminate. Any RGB wire can be filed terminated to custom lengths. HDMI will eventually work. It will take some time for all of the software issues to be worked out, especially in terms of manufacturer compliance with the HDMI specification. At some point, it will be economically important for them to make this connection work. At the moment there is no financial incentive for anyone on any level to make this connecction work as there really is insufficent content available at high resolutions. As content providers look to find additional revenue streams and begin to make available video games, on demand video downloads, new movies, and lord knows what else they may desire to attempt to sell, it will be in everyone's financial interest to comply with the standard and insure that all parties, from hardware manufacturers to content providers, do indeed comply.

There will also be a benefit at that point to an all digital path for video without the additional D/A and A/D conversions analog signal transmission currently requires. Try to guesstimate the length of HDMI wire you need. if your distance is 60' you will need a 75' cable. If it's 120 ft you will need a 75' cable, a HDMI repeater, and a 50' HDMI cable. Dealing with the excess cable will be a pain but such will be life. There has been talk of using CAT5 to carry HDMI signals. You will need 2 CAT5s for this but your distance limitation will be severe. Fiber is an other alternative and can be custom terminated in the filed though I'd bet most of us have never done it and do not know who to do it. Some commercial flat panels have card slots for which third parties manufacturer solutions. One of those is a fiber card. Alternatively, you can
use HDMI-to fiber and back to HDMI solutions. Pioneer has a propritary solution ( that is OEM'ed from.............?) and Geffen has one. I am sure there are others. These solutions are expensive.

Alan