The new TV is sweet. Widescreen, in case it wasn't obvious from the previous pic, and I have zero complaints about the image quality. I used to think that only hardcore movie archivers wanted 2 CD or 3 CD versions of movies. On my computer monitor, movies compressed with XViD to fit onto 1 CD looked "good enough" to me. Well, the image quality on this new TV is good enough that I can now see the compression artefacts on 1 CD versions. I haven't seen any 2 CD versions on it yet, but I'll be sure to try to get some samples to test it out.

The TV also has a few nice features to boot. The most hardcore of features is probably the "TwinView". Because the actual screen is wide, you can fit two regular video feeds side by side to each other. Kilree and I had it set up so that I was playing Racing Evolution on the left side of the screen on the PS2 while he was playing SSX3 on the right side of the screen on the Xbox. Hardcore.

There's also a "Freeze" feature. Let's say I'm pulling a mad combo on SSX3. My digital camera takes a few seconds to boot up, and plus it's always running out of batteries. Rather than have my camera always on, "just in case", I can just hit the freeze button. The screen splits into two regions, and on the left side, the game keeps going, while the right side contains a single frame, captured for posterity.

It has an index feature, where it gives me a (still frame, not live video) thumbnail of 16 different channels, so I can see what's on in a glance. Useless for me, though, since I only use the TV to play video games and watch movies and animes from DVDs, not for cable, satelite or local broadcasting. It has connectors for coaxial, composite, S-Video, component, and this proprietary JVC thing called "compulink"; no DVI unfortunately. Only 3 inputs of the four available inputs are in use right now: XBox, PS2 and the computer.

IIDX looks great, 太鼓の達人：タタコンでドドンガドン　(Taiko no Tatsujin: Tatakon de Dodon ga Don) looks great, animes look okay (though that's more an issue with my video card's TV-out capability than the TV itself). There's a renewed interest in Benami at my place, which means next time Meiko goes to Japan, she's bringing back yet more mixes of IIDX, maybe whatever Japan's version of "DDR Party Mix" is, more 太鼓 games if she can find 'em, and just basically more PS2 games that don't need a firm grasp of Japanese to enjoy.