Best way to get good resolution when hooking up to a TV?

I've just recently bought a Macbook Pro 13" from the refurb store, and yesterday acquired a mini DVI to HDMI adapter, in order to hook it up to the TV (32" Samsung full Hd LCD).  It was successful enough, but the on screen view was hideous.  At first, I could only mirror the displays, then with a bit more exploration was able to use only the TV for the display which allowed me to increase the resolution, but only to 1600x900... and it was still jaggy.
I thought that was really odd, so I hooked up my netbook running Ubuntu with a VGA cable, and was able to get the whole range of resolutions with it... and the output was much more pleasant as well.
Would I be safe in assuming that VGA might also work much better with my MBP?  I'm planning to return the other adapter since it clearly is not suitable for my needs at the moment.

Well, I couldnt wait any longer for a response so what I have done is return the Moshi mini-displayport->HDMI gadet and got a VGA one.
This is what works with my Samsung LCD TV, and I get a full HD screen, not the halfbaked nonsense that the HDMI connector gave.
As a matter of interest, neither of them pass sound to the TV.  No idea how to fix this.

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