All of these are newly installed in wall cables, all from BJC.

Fortunately, it's a temporary problem. The garage (where I patched the 2 HDMI cables together) is really where the 3310 will finally be. But I wired my house such that I could put my AVR in both places, depending on what would work and how much time I had to unpack and rebuild my HT.

For now, I only watch the Tivo (just finishing up the entire 24 season to the finale, wow) so it's working directly connected to the plasma and I just have an optical cable to the 3310. I'm going to try a cheapo passive amplifier and if it doesn't work, I'm only out a few bucks and I have another HDMI adpater.