OK, I'm glad you have some of the same issues I have whith sports games. And yes Halo does look awesome. I suppose it's because it has a much darker look. I'm still going to replace the cheap xbox component cables but I've not had a chance to do it yet.
I did get into the manual convergence...
Congrats Christo! I've been loving my Hitachi also. Question for you. Did you use a HiDef pack for your Xbox? I hooked my Xbox to my 43uwx10b using a HiDef pack I got a Sears for 17 bucks! The picture is not what I expected. I went in a changed the settings in the Xbox settings for 480P...