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Originally Posted by AUdubon5425
Personally, I think a CRT produces a clearer picture than an LCD or plasma screen.
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As for the LCD vs CRT, a major part of the equation is the light quality of the LCD backlight. Though it looks to be white, it's often just blue and yellow light mixed together. The LCD panel has red, green and blue filters painted on its pixels. Blue comes out fine, but you can't really get decent pure enough green and red light from the yellow of the backlight. This limits how well the display can reproduce color, in the industry it's called gamut. One a computer screen, it doesn't much matter if the red in an excel spreadsheet isn't as red as it should have been, but with video or pictures it does make a difference.
I use a bigger VGA CRT monitor (17 inch IIRC) for over the air HDTV driven by a DirecTV box someone gave me. I don't watch enough TV really to justify to myself to get a flat panel.