Before going crazy, check the Samsung 8500 series plasmas. They are competitive IMHO.
Edit: not necessarily price competitive but performance could be considered by some to be better, depending on how you use it and environment.
Greatly prefer Japanese chess to its western cousin. Played on a few websites for a while as well. Just seems more exciting and less bookish to me. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk