Monitor suggestion for HD 16:9 4:3 NTSC and PAL

Great place you all have. Loads and loads of useful information and the occasional heated argument/disscusion keeps me logged on.
I work in the corporate world and the company is making the logical move from print advertising to broadcast advertising and I convinced the boss that we start shooting everything in HD, even though the projects will probably be down-converted to SD for broadcast. I firmly believe that our moving images archive should contain as much HD as possible because soon everyone will be viewing in HD and I don't want our stuff to standout in a negative way.
Since we will, very soon, be doing nearly everything in-house, I'm getting our post-production editing suite together (along with continuing my FCP education) and I need to a get a production monitor installed. We are an international company so some of our projects will need to be in PAL and the flexability of switching from 4:3 to 16:9 is imparative.
I did some searching and reading, in this section, about what some of you are using as monitors but I didn't catch any mention of HD monitors. The budget is tight (naturally) and 9" will be sufficient with portability being a bonus feature but not a necessity.
If you think I might get more responses in the hardware section of the forum I'll ask there but it seems more applicable here.
Suggestions?
Cheers,
D
G-5 dual processor Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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