Displays VGA or HDMI

I have just been advised that I should use the VGA connection over the DVI - HDMI route for the best quality viewing of viewing my FCP footage from my macpro to an HDTV monitor. Is this correct? I thought that HDMI offfered the best quality pictures in terms of connecting to an LCD tv?
Message was edited by: mr bluefin

I personally would pick the hdmi. VGA is analog so you end up with 2 domain switches (from digital to analog vga at the computer and then from analog back to digital in the TV). With the hdmi cable, you never have to do an analog conversion.
Glor

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