OT: What to know before buying an LCD monitor??

[Fyron]

The price difference is certainly dramatic. There is no reason to throw money away on a new CRT when you can get perfectly working used CRTs that are just the same for dirt cheap from computer fairs or people looking to dump their old monitor after buying a LCD... Certainly you have to be careful not to buy a poorly refurbished monitor, but that is pretty easy to determine just by looking at it in action.

I haven't read any reviews on monitors, and wouldn't put much stock in them anyways. I have looked at CRTs and LCDs side by side. I have not seen a non-overly-expensive LCD that I could label as superior, much less to say far superior.

What resolution is your monitor supporting natively, and what was its price?