CRTs often lok like a better picture because of the glass screen, in the same way that glossy LCDs appear to look better than matt LCDs.
But you get relections on the glossy surface, which equals glare.
And old CRTs ran at 50Hz refresh – if you can’t see that then you are lucky.
I had a 540p Sharp LCD (optimised for PAL) and the picture on it was great as there was no need for upscaling or picture processing, plus the colours were excellent.
Don’t be fooled by specs though – published contrast ratios mean little, and if you get a 1080p screen you better feed it with HD material or hope that the electronics in it are good enough at upscaling the picture to make it look acceptable. The cheaper the tv the less likely this is.