Just so you know my brothers Tv only had an hdmi port so we used the vga cable and bought a cheap adapter from vga to hdmi from a computershop (pc world if i remember rightly) and this works perfectly. an advantage of a vga port on a modern tv is that you may be able to use a feature called picture in picture. where a small portion of the screen becomes a different input like the tv while you play games etc.

i hope that helps.

Cheers,
Matt.