Someone who knows something about their stocking system realized that the one in "remote storage facility 1" was actually out back in the main warehouse, so I brought it home today.
So far there's only one real problem, and I'm a total tard apparently.
This thing is a monitor, not a tv. That's right, no tuner. Oops. Why do I need a tuner? Because NTL in it's infinate wisdom tossed out my old but broken digital cable box with the separate coax, s-vid, and video/sound outputs, and gave me one that has ONLY coax out. That means that it can only be used with a tv that has a cable tuner, even though the box itself is used to select channels.
I think I may be able to convince NTL to come out and either give me the digital breakout cable or swap me into a new, more useful cable box, but I'm a retard for not noticing that this sucker didn't have a coax input. It has an antenna input, but no coax. It has DVI and VGA inputs, 8 inputs in all including 3 digital connectors I've never seen before, but no coax.
Tard -=> eagl.
That's the only issue I'm annoyed at. The preset contrast was maxed out and there were some other settings that made dark dvd scenes explode in green and pink blotches, but getting rid of those require nothing more than tweaking a few settings. The picture is very nice too. I bought a cheap progressive scan dvd player and it turned out to be a piece of junk. I couldn't even force it into progressive scan mode with the included instructions, so I may return that player. My older dvd player has 3 vid quality modes, standard, hi-res, and no-flicker, but the manual completely skips that menu so I'm having to experiment to see if I can figure out if one of them forces it into progressive scan mode. Lots of reading and research into seeing how to make this sucker look better, but it's already a massive improvement.
Even though it doesn't have coax input. Damn.
Oh yea, I also blew up my subwoofer swapping out cables because I forgot to turn it off before switching the cables out and I think it's not grounded right, so it went "whomp" a few times while swapping the cables. Now it's not very loud anymore and it makes a loud pop every few minutes when running my stereo in surround mode. Bummer.