I'm definitely NO expert! just a user of them, but! CRT's rule for a few reasons to me - number one is they have many true/native resolutions - wereas TFT's (thats what my young jedi friends call LCD's
) have only one true optimum/native resolution and if your video card cant handle your new 20inch lcd's true/native resolution 1600x1200, you have three options, 1/ upgrade your video card to probably at least 256meg/decent mhz 2/ reduce the resolution on the screen , which is just doubling up on pixels to achieve this EDIT: ie Blocky, - which is just dumb and a rip off (unlike a CRT which retains true pixel size) 3/ reduce the overall size and have a/varying black borders (which defeats having the new 20" monitor a bit) I find it so boring all those 17" ect with the one standard 1280x1024 native resolution (i'm on a mac which has some weird and funky res's sometimes incidently lol) I am impressed with LCD's for all the obvious reasons mentioned, no cancer, size ect., but totally unimpressed with the colours, i think colours are still MUCH better on a CRT personally, not that many people would be as fussy as me?. And sadly recently i went to upgrade to a mitsubishi 19" diamondtron true flat screen (the only brand/model CRT i want - worth getting) - and they are discontinued!!
- they still make the cheaper CRT's tho. This is very sad news for CRT lovers - you are now forced to go tft - not happy Jan! Since they got the refresh rate/Hz equivilant to 8ms and 16ms on the LCD's, all the gamers and video people are happy, and demand dropped for the highend CRT's i guess - classy large CRT's RIP! not to mention it has turned getter a bigger screen for me from 500 dollar solution to a 1500 dollar solution (with new video card) for the same quality/size aarrggghh!
My 6 year old mitsi diamondtron 17" (phosphors are going of course) I use at 1024x768 85 Hz
Cheers
Kearn