I used to vilify LCDs, but as the technology matures, I'm starting to become an advocate. That, and it's the path the video, movie and gaming industries have decided to follow.
Your best bet is to follow along too, as the whole industry will soon consider it the standard. For example, sudden support for LCDs has appeared in video production software as of late--the change is coming on the professional level, which means it will certainly trickle down to the consumer.
Lots of laptops out there too, if you think about it, and none of them have CRTs.
Here's some other things to keep in mind... I've gone CRT shopping, and the quality level has dropped tremendously, as all the big names have gotten into producing plasma and LCD displays. Stores are trying to offload CRTs as cheap HD displays, before the market goes all LCD/Plasma/DLP. The prices for consumer CRTs are cheap, and sadly, so is the quality.
There's also the issue of TV watching... if most people are going to have LCDs and Plasmas, the TV signals are going to be designed and balanced for those displays. The same goes for games for next-gen systems.
But... forget the market for a second.
LCDs are easier on the eyes, in my opinion. They don't flicker like a CRT, and in their native resolution, the sharpness beats a CRT easily. I go back from LCDs to CRTs every day, and the more I use LCDs, the more I want to ditch my CRT displays. There's the blurring and the black levels, but a lot of it has been eliminated since the early days of LCDs. I'd rather have the blurring than the flicker.
So I'd get the LCD. If anything, with the demand for LCDs up, it'd be easier to sell it off if you didn't like it down the line.
- Ven
