Good for you Steve! Having a HDMI connection that works is great! Not all negotiate correctly. Some of the new (much more $) LCD displays now have techniques that claim 6000:1 contrast -- but at a 2x price over what you paid or I paid for my Sceptre. Yes SD over the air/cable looks bad up close. Do you have a cable box that provides hi def QAM? Or have an over the air hi def ATSC tuner? If I were you my next purchase would be to get a Toshiba HD-A2 early next month and connect it using HDMI through your Yammie to the Westy for the very best high definition source now available. Batman Begins is coming up Oct 10th with 5.1 Dolby TrueHD lossless!
Bob