32 inch Soyo HD ready LCD

I own a Soyo HD ready LCD, and want to use it as my second monitor, wife will not let me purchase the 30 HD Cinema, which I use with Aperture. This LCD has both DVI, and VGA. I prefer to use DVI, but seem to not be able to config correctly. Any ideas on what I need to do? I am using 23 inch HD Cinema as main monitore. specs for Soyo http://www.soyo.com/products/proddesc.php?id=337 Any help is appreciated.

In my opinion, 99.9% of TV monitors make lousy computer monitors due to their relatively low resolution. If you'll look a the specs for the Soyo model you linked to, you'll see the ONLY resolution setting is 1366 x 768 ... pretty low for critical computer work.
In comparison, Apple's 23" Cinema Display and Dell's 24" has up to 1920 x 1200 and Apple's 30" is up to 2560 x 1600.
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