All the above agreed to -;)
I’m on a budget, too and have bothe the Cinemadisplay/Decklink/HD-Link solution and the panny HD 17″.
I Bought the Panny for two reasons:
1. Shooting HD with the HVX without some sort of external HD monitoring seems rather risky, as you cannot correctly determine focus from the LCD flipout or viewfinder (Even with focus assist and the edge-enhancement turned on).
2. I was never happy with the Decklink solution for monitoring.
So even though I don’t get pixel-accurate monitoring in 1080 on the panny, I much prefer working on it colorwise than the HD-Link.
I’ll keep the box to have the pixel-option ready when needed, though.
Gunleik