That's beet red. Or do you have something against beets, too?

Yes, they will burn in. I was in Borders recently and looked at one of the Sony demo units. The "home page" of the demo was imprinted on the screen, and was faintly visible when turning the page, or wherever there was significant whitespace.

Not only that, but it's the first volume of four? It sounds interesting but that fact, combined with the review, puts me off a little.

MinTTY works great. All the benefits of xterm (including window resizing), without needing to start the X server.