I have a VA Sony and it's good but still not quiet up to the standard of my Panasonic plasma. We will get there one day I hope. People that know me think I'm fussy until I explain and show them what we have lost since going away from CRT.

I have a VA Sony and it's good but still not quiet up to the standard of my Panasonic plasma. We will get there one day I hope. People that know me think I'm fussy until I explain and show them what we have lost since going away from CRT.

most people these days have never seen CRT let alone see how they black level compare to lcd/led for get about there non existent motion blurring in comparisons to lcd/led. Oled is only thing that is comparable to CRT black levels (seen this in person), and supposedly comparable to CRT none existent motion blur too (dont have access to OLED to compare) CRT is far superior imo, only LCD/LED is all about the slim design

CRT is far superior imo, only LCD/LED is all about the slim design

Right. Lifespan, brightness, flicker, size, resolution, power draw, heat, eye fatigue are all worthless metrics. Let's not get started about VGA and its analog nature. Can you calibrate a CRT and expect accurate color rendition after some time? Can you even do variable refresh on a CRT? There was no way CRT would have made it to the present. RIP. Move on.

Move on to what? It's mostly dreadful.

Move on to what? It's mostly dreadful.

Dreadful? Aside from black levels on IPS, which are finally moving forward, we have: 1) Very high resolutions: 2560x1440, 3840x2160, 5120x2880, and beyond. 2) Very high refresh rates: 144Hz, 165Hz, 200Hz. 240Hz+ incoming. 3) Rapidly improving VA technology, promising 3000:1+ contrast ratios (read: inky blacks) 4) Arbitrary sizes and ratios: Want a 40" PC monitor? Sure. 20"? Go ahead. 34"? Of course. 16:9, 21:9, or even 32:9? Definitely. 5) Variable refresh rates! Enough said. Active refresh technologies are much harder to drive with a variable refresh rate. 6) Wider and wider color gamuts, with higher bit depths. We finally can move away from the limited, undersaturated sRGB. 7) Massive infiltration of the South Korean monitor market: We've seen it before. 1440p 120Hz IPS, 4K 60Hz FreeSync, 5K panels for $200, and soon enough, 4K+ 120Hz+ FreeSync. 7) And finally, OLED pretty soon, given they can solve lifespan issues. Look at the LCD / OLED laptop / tablet / mobile display market. We have 1440p - 4K LCDs cranking contrast ratios above 1500:1 (and even 1800:1), with top-notch accuracy, and OLED is leaping ahead every generation with more accurate colors, wider gamuts, higher resolutions, and pretty soon, higher refresh rates, all with zero black level.

Finally we are starting to get good blacks and less blur.

Finally we are starting to get good blacks and less blur.

Not only less blur ... pretty much no blur. Refresh rates are becoming higher and higher, and hopefully, soon enough, we may have strobing with a variable refresh rate. I reckon it's easier to hide timing artifacts with even higher refresh rates when variable strobing is used. At least, an option where strobing is toggled when a framerate ceiling such as 200FPS is reached, then switching back to constant backlight without showing any color variation to the user. As for blacks, it's only a matter of time. Black levels are getting better and better.

Right. Lifespan, brightness, flicker, size, resolution, power draw, heat, eye fatigue are all worthless metrics. Let's not get started about VGA and its analog nature. Can you calibrate a CRT and expect accurate color rendition after some time? Can you even do variable refresh on a CRT? There was no way CRT would have made it to the present. RIP. Move on.

picture quality it better, motion blur and the fake 120hz crap run the image quality imo on lcd/led ruin any image quality advantages it has, nor does crt have fixed resolution with everything else scaled... LCD/LED look like crap on anything but there native resolution, and no scaling does not make up for the fix resolution in my book. Btw I prefer Analog over digital any day, the artifacts in digital feed no match for perfect analog signal not to mention there is no"boxing" effect on analog singals that digital has. For same reason some people prefer vinyl records sound over cd newer dont always mean better, just mean newer Also come down to personal preference, and i have always hated LCD/LED OLED cant replace LCD/LED fast enough.