Mac Mini: shall I use VGA or DVI?

I'm hopefully getting a new Mac Mini next week. My question is basically should I use DVI to VGA on my Samsung 32" LCD, or use DVI to DVI?
I can't use the HDMI port as it's being used by my Sky HD box (unless I can get a splitter??).
All advice greatly appreciated.

I would agree with Boece's thoughts. DVI is the better quality display option. Being digital it doesn't go through the process of converting the video stream to analog, only to have to convert it back to digital in the display. As a result, DVI generally gives a more crisp image quality with better color density and saturation and better contrast and brightness. However, VGA is far more universal, and while image quality is not as good in theory, often it works better in practice - particularly with TVs.
The problem with using a TV as display for a computer is that as yet it's early days for such things, and TV manufacturers are often not quite on the ball in terms of ensuring their products are entirely compatible. Thus even though yours has both DVI and VGA inputs, you might find that the output is better, or the screen more usable with VGA than DVI.
hence the advice to experiment - trying DVI first so see if you can get a good image that fills the screen. If so, stick with that. If not, go to VGA and see if that works better.

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