Chris my wife and I bought an LG HD television set and for the first six months it was a tragedy. It kept breaking down with faults like arcing, picture size diminishing etc etc. No sooner get it right and back again to TV repairers who became just as exasperated. LG in meantime didn’t want to know about it and said parts had to come from Korea. For heaven’s sake they carried none in Australia!! Then there was a recall for a number of sets under certain registrations. Similar problems I assume. LG I think lost a lot of goodwill and customers in this time.

as far as plasama tvonly tv able to be used as a monitor is not true i have had both and both had vga input my first tv a plasma was not a hidef it was digital my secound is a rear projection lcd tv it has both vga although this one does not have the white digital but supposidly the tv converts the signal

my first tv was an akai my first day acidently all of the buttons under the bottom of the screen were push at the same time anyway long story short it took six months to try and get it fix the first time a board was replace that did not fix the issue then the part that was need was on back order each tech vist was around 4-6 weks apart even though akai has a coustomer phone no. that did not get any results after 6 mounths most of that my gift card was sitting on the mangers desk at my local compusa it does pay to have a extended warenty after that they started closing down several stores by the way it does pay to buy late model demos both tvs cost me less 1000 dollars one of the problems with being a guy we always want something bigger several times i ahve seen bigger sets for around the same price