Nice post! I was actually in the market for an LCD a week ago. I ended up buying the Albatron from NewEgg for $440.
Definitely warm because of the few things listed in the original post.
Another member just posted an 18" with similar stats for $400. I think I'd spend the $440 for TV Tuner, RCA in, and DVI and even lose an inch of viewing size for the response time alone. My suitemate has a monitor that ghosts pretty badly and so I think response time is a biggy after having seen that.