Believe it or not, there are still good reasons to buy a CRT monitor rather than an LCD. At least that’s what Nick Stam argues over at ExtremeTech:
The tried-and-true CRT-based PC monitor remains the best display choice for many applications, such as professional graphics design or animation, where color accuracy, luminance uniformity, color purity, black levels, and contrast ratios are critically important. Fast-action gaming and high-motion video are still best viewed on CRTs, because most panels suffer from motion blur or pixelation problems due to slower-than-required liquid crystal response times. Panels can’t touch CRTs in the area of viewing angles and resolution scaling (when scaling up or down from their native, fixed-pixel resolution, panels still look pretty ugly in most cases).
Apparently there are even more innovations and improvements in image quality coming. Those might be too little, too late for those of us who would be more than happy to never have to stare at CRT monitor ever again. Or pick one up, for that matter.
