i distinctly remember someone saying CRT HDTVs also suffer from input lag to some degree, but not nearly as much as the high end LEDs since they do so much image processing to get that *good* pic quality. i am borrowing M.I.L.s CRT right now, 20-something '. i can only get 480i on it. feels like playing the sega genesis! lol. but i actually whomped some fools for a few hours on RDR. just missed another flawless: went 16-1. only death was cuz i fell off roof! ha.
will be getting the sony KDL-46LX900. its not as good a pic as the HX900, but that model isnt even available, it seems. im am not waiting a month or more for a TV. need. TV. now. its not like this is crap either. its still a very nice TV.
am fairly confident that the VGA port will handle 720p, which is the max my Hauppage can handle anyways. so when recording or playing competitively, ill play using VGA port at 720p. and if any games come out that i need 1080p, or i want to watch a proper DVD/BRay ill just switch to HDMI and cope with the lag...
just praying that it all works out fine.
(oh, on another note, my PC is probably 5yrs old. on my last TV, had PC-TV connected via standard VGA cable, so i could watch downloaded movies on my TV. i think i got about 480p or 720p, definitely not full HD quality. BUT i just saw my PC has a HDMI port next to the VGA port. cant test if it works, but i went and bought a cheap 12ft HDMI cable from hong kong. hoping to get some HD quality TV footage from my PC.. does that sound very plausible? am i gonna destroy my TV? any thoughts on that one?)
EDIT: thx to all this fucking modding/upgrading im doing, a good portion of that was just getting the next thing on the list. by chance, i got one of the lower end video cards for my PC (to enable the hauppauge pvr to work properly). im glad i didnt get the lowest model. this model was about 40$, and it came with a HDMI port on it!! that is fucking sweeeet as! i can (hopefully soon) watch full 1080p illegal downloaded content from my PC to my brand new HDTV!
+1 for fly by the seat of my pants Kuzu!