I was dissapointed with the "degraded mode" of operation on my 43 inch Pioneer. Once it went in to "degraded mode" it was more like this washed out non viewable fuzzy image. Totally useless for gaming.

I only experienced it once and this is when I had the Pioneer on a multicast channel watching a thunderstorm front move thru on the Radar.

Like you say the new games are more like watching a movie and this Radar Image was not changing very quickly.

-DonB