The monitor offers a wonderful picture quality. I work at a major motion picture studio and am around professional HDTV monitors all day. The Panasonic gives as close to a film look of any Plasma display. The unit offers all the basic analog video inputs needed with one additional slot available for a future input card if needed. Panasonic does offer an optional DTV input card for those who may want to input direct digital video. I did not purchase that card but may in the future.