Nup. Haven't bought any new Sony crap since their rootkit fiasco. Most of their stuff is painfully crippled in some way.

Oh, come on. The word is "demoed". Or demonstrated. You don't just panic and toss in an apostrophe because a word ends in a vowel.

There should be no features in a screen unrelated to displaying the picture. Screens last *so much* longer than all the equipment that you'll likely be plugging into them that you don't want to waste money on integrated features that will be useless before the screen is even a tenth of the way through its life.

Someone needs to release a 1080p projector with a secondary anamorphic lens to stretch the picture horizontally that's paired with vertical digital stretch mode. Press a button and the lens is switched in and the vertical zoom is turned on and you're ready to watch The Fifth Element or some other 2.35:1 (or wider) movie.

I don't care what the transfer looks like, I'm only buying it if they release a Transformers 1 & 2 Blu-ray box set that physically transforms into a huge robot.

@MFM

Lecturing some layman on HDTV is overkill.

Explaining to an ignorant "expert" with a pulpit that home video formats are still trying to catch up to 35mm is an occasionally necessary public service.

1680x1050? Really? While 1080p is overkill at 22", do you really want the crappy scaling that comes with missing out just 30 lines?

Try this: http://www.benq.com.au/products/LCD/?product=1458

I bought benQ's 24" full 1920x1080 offering as my cheap entrance to the world of HD and I have not been disappointed.

It looks cool enough, but I bet the price makes you run away screaming.

I recently bought a Blu-ray player AND a 1080p monitor for less than I paid for either my first VCR or my old 68cm CRT TV. I have four of the eight movies I care about owning on Blu-ray and the other four have been advertised as coming soon. I can rent Blu-ray discs from a video rental place across the road for the same price as DVDs. Several of my friends have a small, but growing, Blu-ray collection.

As far as I'm concerned, it's arrived.

What's the solution for those of us that already need glasses just to see the screen?