On the other hand, all the LCDs I've used so far do a fairly poor job with fast motion such as found in movies/videos, games, etc, and none of the LCDs scale well at all - for watching DVDs, LCDs look horrendous IMHO, completely unwatchable, looking worse and worse the higher the native resolution of the display. I'm not sure if the faster LCD displays out there are free of the fast motion issue or not, but there's no reason to believe that any LCD will do a better job of scaling their resolution down for full-screen video/DVD watching.
Now, if you're going to buy a CRT, I highly recommend *not* buying a new CRT display - all currently available new 17" CRT displays suck, not managing anything higher than 1024x768 at more than 60 Hz - if a display says it does 1280x1024, or even 1600x1200, you've got to find out what the refresh rate is at those resolutions - in my research all the ones I could find did those resolutions at 60 Hz. 60Hz is unusable IMHO - flicker-city. Those resolutions are there just to artificially bump the numbers up. The Apple 17" Studio Displays do 1280x1024 at something over 70 Hz (offhand I can't recall the exact speed), which is flicker free to my eyes. They also do 1600x1200, but that at 60 Hz, so again that's there just to bump the numbers up. Also worth note is that the Apple CRT has excellent color. I got my used 17" Studio Display for $60 shipped off of ebay and it has been great. Well worth the money!
So... I substantially prefer an LCD for general use, but do prefer a CRT for video playing/editing and gaming. My ideal system would be a dual-display with both a digital LCD and a 17" CRT Apple Studio Display. I'd use the LCD as the main display for general use and use the CRT as the main display for iMovie/iDVD, games and video/DVD watching (the latter I really rarely do on a computer anyway.)
Steve
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