what's with these odd figures people are throwing around...they're just approximates, almost meaningless if discussing whether you'll notice the ghosting.
if you can't notice ghosting on lcds...good for you, i guess. but making statements that others will not notice it is incorrect.
for a lot of people ghosting, even at 8ms it is still detectable. even at 12ms, i personally think it's still a problem. a 8ms lcd doesn't mean iit's 8ms. those figures dont always work out that way, which is the problem with using these numbers to decide. my friend's 20ms monitor ghosted less then my old 16ms monitor.
though i can see how waylay got his math, it doesn't work in the case of lcds. because the pixels does not function at a constant 8ms or 12ms for every change. you can look at running a demo and getting a final overal fps count of 60fps, but when you pay the actual game, there are spots in the game that spikes down to 45, thus you can detect the jumps. maybe not the best example, but sorta like that.
anyways, back to answer op's questions...8ms monitors are still rare. i would give it a few more months for competitors to jump in the market...or wait for reviews. anyways, that sony is bound to be priced higher than most other monitors. and it looks kinda weird.