Mac Mini on HDTV.. Not Good

I think i must be doing something wrong, because I've read other reviews and people were happy. I'm running a 1st gen mac mini.. and I have it hooked into my LG 32" plasma TV DVI-HDMI cable... at full resolution, everything is way to small to read.. then I bump down to 800x600 everything fits on the screen, but it looks really bad... hard to read, just gross... am i doing something wrong?? did I miss something that I should do??? please help, because the main reason I got this tv is so i could hook the mini into it...

What is the native resolution of your TV, and from how far away are you trying to read it?
(You might also want to pick the right Font Smoothing Style in Apple Menu > System Preferences > Appearance. This may be especially important if you are using a non-native resolution.)
Many Mac programs allow magnification of their screen content, for example the Opera web browser and the beta of Firefox 3.0 -- if you need to browse from a distance.

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