Macbook compatibility with big screen tv's

I just bought a 2ghz macbook. I'm looking at a vizio 42 inch television at costco which has an hdmi input.
I spoke to two apple reps.
1st rep said that anyway I connect my macbook to a bigscreen I will have very poor picture quality and it's not worth doing. Is this true?
2nd rep said that I need dvi input on the tv to get good picture quality. I asked about the hdmi and she said she didn't think it would have as good of quality. Can anyone help me out here?
Has anyone hooked up there macbook (not pro) to a bigscreen? Did you use hdmi, dvi which works better...and is it worth doing? THanks in advance.
i-mike

I had a Mac Mini hooked up to my 62 inch Samsung DLP. I as using it with a EyeTv 500 DVR. AS far as movies, TV viewing the picture was fantastic.
When web browing or using it for other types of applications, it tended to be not as clear. With the web I would enlarge the fonts and then I had no complaints.
My TV had an input for a pc which allowed me to set the resolution on it.
I will be trying this with my new macbook some time tonight. I will post what I find

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