In many aspects you can't beat CRT image quality, though getting close enough. Also many other aspects, like latency, tearing, scaling....work in the CRT's favour.<p>However, big, heavy and less easier on the eye over time as well as electricity usage all weighed down it's demise. Though like many, I still have a few CRT's for the odd moments and photo's just look a whole other level on them. But for many tasks - panel screens are more than good enough.<p>Equally, I recently heard that good CRT monitors are going up in price second hand and kinda like the old IBM model M keyboards - may well overtake their initial sales price. A quick look on ebay and for my monitor - it's now worth more now than when I brought it - tech like that is rare.