Pros: It renders a clean 1920x1024 image. Works well for gaming, dvds, and over-air digital broadcasts. The buttons being on the side help make it more kid proof. I love the dual DVI and the RGB input for computers. The viewing angle is great, and the brightness is okay. Love the auto-off when no signal is detected, and auto-source select when you power it on. I haven't had any remote control issues with the factory remote, and have even used the factory remote to teach my learning universal remote with no issues. However, small text and other details from all inputs including the computer show up crystal clear. This isn't a show-piece, but you're not going to find anything better unless you double the cost, so value for the dollar is phenomenal. So, while the performance is only average, the price makes me upgrade my rating to 4-stars

Cons: No zoom function. So, if you're watching a widescreen DVD, you will see a black border all the way around it. It will allow you to stretch the image to the sides, which creates a distorted image and leaves the black edges on top and bottom. However, the screen is large enough, and the black stays black enough, that you quickly forget about the black border all the way around. Bright colors get over saturated and washed out easily and dull colors render as dull. I toned down the brightness/contrast/saturation so that CSI looked natural and vibrant, but when the evening news came on, the anchors were a little gray. Factory settings turned out to be a happy medium. No ghosting, but in action scenes, you can see it pixelate sorta like a compressed movie file on your computer will do. Low-res DVDs (such as the seasons of Friends) don't look that great.

Overall Review: There are some trade offs. The sheer number of pixels make it out-perform all lower resolution displays, but a close comparison with other 1080p displays costing twice as much, will show this one is weak in a few areas. My computer gaming friends still drool over it though. Keep in mind that it's HD, so bad video looks worse, and good video looks better.