just fyi, my japanese professor said that samsung has probably beaten all japanese companies in the TV arena. seriously, samsung TVs pump out nice pictures at a reasonable price.. imo. but ill stick with LCD monitors, a lot cheaper, and we're still not in the HD era here to warrant a HDTV purchase

i may be wrong about this but isnt response time the lag that you get? as in if the monitor has an 8ms response time, everything on the screen is 8ms late (takes the monitor 8ms to display the output of the console). while ghosting is related to the quality of the signal/screen, as in you can see a ghost/shadow of the picture on screen?