Full HD LCD TV as external monitor for Win XP games?

Hello everyone,
I have a current MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Great machine.
I am also running Windows XP via BootCamp for some business applications and games.
I would now like to buy a "Full HD" LCD TV (probably the Samsung LE 40 M 86 BD) and use it as an external monitor for gaming, using a DVI > HDMI cable.
Will this work? I.e.:
+ MacBook Pro (2 GB / 2.2 GHz / GeForce 8600M GT)
+ BootCamp & Windows XP SP2
+ DVI > HDMI Cable
+ Samsung Full HD TV (1920x1080)
+ DirectX 8/9 games (Half-Life 2, Portal, Far Cry etc.)
= Big Screen Gaming?
Or are there pitfalls I am currently not thinking of?
(This is one of those questions where the typical TV dealer / Windows gamer will shrug and say "Yeah. Whatever. Should work. Maybe. Buy everything and try it.")
I'd be glad if people who have tried this could share their experiences.
Thanks.

Thing is, I am trying this too. However, the only option I get is to clone the display. This is not what I want, I want to use the TV as the primary display. This way games will startup on the big TV and not on my Macbook Pro. Now I don't get the option to use that TV as a primary display.
So leaves me with the option to clone the display and have same image rendered on both screens... This is NOT what i want. In Leopard everything works great... obviously...
PLease let me know if you got any solutions for this

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