New Mac-Mini on a 1080p projector

Would the new mac mini (with leopard) work well with a 1080p projector (Marantz 15s1) using dvi to vga connection? I tried connecting my Macbook Pro to the projector and the picture looks soft even when I selected 1080p resolution on the macbook pro. The projector confirmed that it's displaying 1080p but the picture is still not as sharp as using a windows based pc.

The EMI filters are based on tiny surface mount parts, so I would say trying to bypass them would be very difficult without a schematic and layout diagram and a lot of skill.
Can you at least temporarily connect the MBP to an HDMI port on the projector just to confirm that the fuzziness goes away? That would at least confirm my hunch that the problem is related to filtering of the analog video. If the fuzziness is still present under HDMI, then there is some other issue to be addressed.

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