Which type of monitor is worse? LCD or CRT

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What is the brightness and contrast ratio of your lcd? Because people like big numbers, some of the cheaper models are so bright that they are only good for watching movies.

I prefer CRT with the refresh set at maximum. 85Hz. I don't like the way text becomes unreadable when scrolling on LCD/TFT. Gets me thinking. If it messes up text on scroll, what else does it mess up? I've been using CRT's since 1992

I prefer LCD due to the fact that you don't have the refresh rate issues that you do with CRT's, which of they are synced to the wrong refresh rate are unbearable to look at, and give me a pounding headache.

I prefer CRTs since they are not as blurry as LCDs. I mean... moving the mouse makes its cursor change color for a short moment. It annoys me.

I prefer a CRT if it's at 85Hz or 100Hz. I've always found LCDs to be stressful on my eyes - my current laptop, a Dell Studio 1737, has an LED backlit screen and that's even worse. On its lowest brightness it's about as high as a CCFL backlight on full whack.

I prefer LCD screens, if, they feel good for the eyes. LG has produced very cheap LCD displays, but I never liked them as much as I have for good CRT:s.

I believe BenQ has one of the best LCD:s which is out there. They take far less energy consumption than Samsung displays also (from what I have seen on paper) and this makes a LCD display really attractive, in my opinion.

When using an LCD, does anyone else dislike anti-aliasing of text (ClearType)?

As nodice wrote if someone wants to use LCD monitor more than a few hours per day then he should have matte LCD, not glossy one. Glossy LCDs better represent colours, can represent very high resolutions (image is not blurred by matte screen) etc. Maybe they are better for multimedia applications (watching movies, ...) and this can be the reason why most notebooks have glossy LCD now. But if someone wants to use computer professionally or has problems with eyes and wants to use LCD then he should buy matte LCD. Matte notebooks are produced now by following good companies:
- HP (for example series 6730b: GB988EA, GB992EA) - quite expensive since they are aimed at business/professional clients, but good company and good notebooks
- Toshiba Tecra A10-11M, A10-12O etc.
- Lenovo ThinkPad - previously produced by IBM, not expensive, but they have old casing that many people don't like now
- many Dell notebooks - aimed rather at company clients
- Asus rather don't make notebooks with matte LCDs now

Scoots, did you try to use eye drops to moisturise your eyes? Some time ago I had a problem with eyes (so called dry eye syndrome). Looking at monitor longer than one or two hours was tiring for me. I was using drops and applying rules of health work with computer for several months. After that, the problem gone away and now I can use the computer virtually without problems for longer than 8 hours per day.

Some CRTs can have "dead pixels" when they age and the phosphors in the tube start to wear.
My dad had a Compaq monitor hooked up to his computer and one of the pixels on the picture tube went black son on a MS Word document it looked like a period.

I like LCDs because they display exactly what is happening on the computer in the physical world.

For instance you have a physical set of pixels on the monitor like 1920x1200 for example, and your computer internally is 1920x1200. So every single line, edge, shape etc fits perfectly into the same grid thats physically on your screen. Like the letter I is locked perfectly in the right pixels, there is no scaling where you have part of the I in one group of pixels, and another more transparent part of the I in another group of pixels next to that because its not fitting. I like it to be exact, I hate scaling.

I use both, and I prefer the LCD for reading and the CRT for games and images