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Originally Posted by BoCo
I've never seen an LCD with a dot pitch that was anywhere near the .19-.21 of a cheaper, higher quality CRT. I'll only switch to LCDs once they can touch a CRT.
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Just because a CRT has a small dot pitch does not necessarily mean that it will have a sharper image. All it means is that the phosphor dots on the inside of the glass are set close together. Since the phosphor dots on a CRT don't correspond 1:1 with the actual pixels they're supposed to be displaying, most of the phosphor dots end up "blending" multiple pixels together. The result is an image that is far less crisp than on an LCD, where, although the dot pitch is higher (not even sure you can use "dot pitch" in relation to LCDs since they don't have "dots"), each RGB triplet corresponds 1:1 with a pixel.
I fail to see how a CRT with a dot pitch of .19 can be considered less sharp than an LCD on which you can literally see the edges of each pixel.
It might be possible to argue that once a CRT is correctly configured (image straightened, degaussed, etc), that the pixels will line up more or less on the phosphor dots. That's fine, except that to do the same thing with my LCD requires that I hit the "Auto" button and I instantly get zero wasted screen space, no warped edges of the screen, and ultra-crisp lines.