[douglas]

Looking at my flat panel monitor, 1280x1024 is plenty for me, I see no blurring at all, 17" is quite large enough, the picture stays perfectly clear at a considerably wider angle than I would ever need it to, and it's a whole lot lighter and takes up much less desk space than a CRT would. All this for considerably less than $300. I think I would save little more than $100 by getting a comparable CRT, and it would be much less convenient to move or arrange things around.