My brother has the earlier LVM-37W1 and is quite pleased with it. He uses it the way that you want to: PC and HDTV monitor. The off-axis viewing isn't great (but isn't horrible, either), but that's probably been improved as his is from two generations ago. The picture looked great to me when I saw it, and it works well with his Mac Mini. Hard to believe that he paid over $1500 for his when they were closing them out for the new models early last year (think it was last year), and now this one is $800. Good price, for sure.
By "steamed up," do you mean that they like it or hate it?