[Rosollia]

LCD monitors struggle with the dark colors. There is a backlight on LCD monitors that is always on. This means that you can not get pure black. Perhaps higher end LCD monitors and ones that use LED for backlight can cope better with the dark colors, but they will never be as good as CRT monitors IMHO.

CRT monitors on the other hand have the electron beam that lights up the phosphor layer to produce pixels at exactly the wanted brightness levels. So CRT monitors usualy have a lot better color gradient and are able to display a wider range of brightness levels.

I have a 2 year old 22" LCD monitor that was in the middle price range when I bought it and it is impossible to make that line in the example picture disappear.

The only good thing about an LCD monitor is that it weights less than CRT and takes less room. Also it has a wery sharp image quality at its native resolution.

Other than that CRT monitors are supperior especialy in color richness and displaying various brightness levels. Also CRT is able to produce any resolution not just the native resolution. LCDs suffer in image quality while trying to emulate lower than native resolutions.

Down side to CRT is that they may struggle with the HD resolutions at 1920 × 1080. Also CRT monitors may flicker anoyingly if they have a lower than 85 Hz refresh rate. LCD monitors do not have this problem since they do not have a beam riding the screen. Granted some early LCDs had the trailing problem due to the crystals turning too slow.