Philips D-Wide TV for "native" component and converted RGB.

[PatoCrioyo]

Hello, guys! First time I'm posting here, but I've learnt a lot reading through.

I've been looking for a good monitor or TV for a long time, with not much luck. I recently gave away my kinda flawed 29" Sony Trinitron to a friend after I got a Toshiba 24AF45, which I had heard very good things of, but it turned out to be broken (the image has several issues as does the sound) and has a smell of cat piss that I haven't been able to take off of it. I got scammed, basically. Maybe I can fix it, but right now I want to try something a bit different

First, for context, I live in Argentina and there aren't many options over here. That Toshiba was a fluke, actually, I never expected to find it here (it wasn't released in this region, the seller had bought it in the US and brought it over) and I don't expect to find anything much better than average, but I'm not sure about shelling a lot of cash for the few nice options either.

I had considered the Interi Art Musée models from JVC, the older Sony Trinitrons which have component (which I only hope lack the horrible auto-image corrections of the later models) and the Philips D-Wide series.
Those Philips caught my attention mainly because they're 16:9 CRTs, with no HDMI (so hopefully no digital processin that add input lag), and I haven't seen any other brands do that over here. It's interesting mainly to play all of those old games that had widescreen modes ahead of their time and to play Wii games, for example. For all of the other games that run at 4:3 I'd lose screen real estate, but I'm ok with that (there's a 4:3 squeeze mode, of course, like many 4:3 TVs had the 16:9 letterbox mode). I'd have to make a bit of room for it, but I think it'd be worth it.

I wanted to ask you though, what do you think about these? I've seen them in 28" and 32" (I'd go for the bigger one), all of them with flat screens, and one that appears to have a rounded screen but I haven't been able to confirm that yet.
Is the image quality on these decent? Do they have auto-image calibration that can't be turned off, or digital processing that adds input lag? I'm not a speed runner or anything, but I am sensitive to input lag, so that'd be a problem for me (it's one of the reasons I don't really like playing with my Framemeister).

These are around $50 to $100 (US dollars), plus a nice bit for shipping, which is a lot less than the only nice alternative I have so far: a 20" Ikegami monitor (the TM20-17R) which is selling for $750. That's pretty close to what I've seen it run for on eBay, but I'm not sure if the boost in quality will be worth it. I mean, I know it will be great, I have a 14" Sony PVM that looks AMAZING and has spoiled me quite a bit when it comes to judging CRT TVs, but spending that much money for 6" more is not something I'm sure I can justify.
One thing that's pushing me to the edge for the Ikegami, though, is the fact that I've raised more than 2/3rds of what it costs from selling video game stuff for the past few months, so not a lot has to come directly from my pockets at the moment...

Anyways, what are your thoughts about this? Is the Philips D-Wide series a good compromise considering the costs involved? Are those TVs any good to begin with? Or should I just cave in and get that sweet Ikegami?

PS: I should've mentioned this before, but I convert RGB to component to get to these consumer TVs, while it's direct RGB to the Sony PVM and the Framemeister. While modding a TV to accept RGB could be an option, I still need to have component for the Xbox/GC/PS2/Wii/PSP, so having RGB going to component is the most practical option even if I lose a bit of image quality there.