A decent sized CRT TV takes up a quarter of your living room and needs several burly blokes to move it. The shape of them dictates that they usually have to sit in a corner, so not good if you use surround sound.
If you were to set up the CRT display, you would realize that maintaining focus between the three guns is rarely spot on across the full display and that there is noticeable image distortion at the margins of the tube. So whilst they may appear a bit sharper, they are actually worse overall. These problems are exasurbated as the TV ages.
There are many older and newer cheapo LCD’s that don’t do justice to the technology. The digital processing is the issue in most cases. Pre-Freeview models are dire at analogue to digital conversion and refresh rates are far too slow for the panel. You would understand what i’m on about if you used your TV as a PC monitor and saw what the panel is capable of – better than any CRT by a country mile!
Years ago, my father in-law bought a widescreen Loewe CRT with digital processing. It was analogue terrestrial only input (Freeview hadn’t been invented). The quality of the image was quite dynamic, but motion artefacts were very noticeable, just like a lot of flat panel TV’s – horrible NO THANKS! I couldn’t see the point in putting digital image processing inbetween and anologue tuner and an analogue display, but those people at Loewe clearly thought differently.
In my view Loewe and B & O are premium brands that bring barely any performance advantage, if any. You just pay twice as much for a badge to impress (or not impress) your friends! Shows you have more money than sense.
If you connect an external source to your LCD, you need to use the HDMI interface. If your input device doesn’t support HDMI, you need to use the next best – RGB interface. If you used S-Video, or Composite or the results will be very noticeably worse – not something that would show up on a smoother softer analogue CRT.
Sorry you CRT lovers, but you are out of touch and misinformed. Good luck with getting it right next time!