I bought one of those 'flat' screen 'crt' televisions for my wife for her Xmas - she would have killed me if I had bought a flat screen tv. And I got a really good deal on it cuz no one wanted 'crt' tvs any more. We are purposedly remaining ludite - it is a long story having to do with hurricane Fran and cell phones.

Well..........

I am ready to hear the story!

I personally have all flat-panel, although not nearly on the scale of ITdupuis. I have 2x17" lcds on my main PC, a 15" on my "hackintosh", and a 37" HD LCD in my living room, I love them all and wouldn't change any of them back to CRT. But with that said, if I was going to buy a budget TV for my bedroom it very well might be a flat-screen CRT.

LCDs and Plasmas do look better, and have the potential to look much better (although some newer large-screen CRTs are high def) but that can cause problems. Because they're designed for HD, and generally large format, they don't look great if you hook it up to a low quality video source. Not only is it a waste of your electronics but standard ratio video is squished (not badly but if you switch back and forth between the same show in standard and wide screen you do really notice the difference).

In my opinion, consider HD flat-panel if you have, or plan to get, high def cable/satellite or if you watch a lor of DVD/Blueray movies. If you don't really watch DVDs and have an antenna you're better off going cheap and waiting until you're going to make use of it (they will be a better value then anyway).

Although, some people do buy them because they're low on space or just don't want a bulky entertainment center. My main motivation for getting an LCD was wanting to redecorate my apartment and having a funny floorplan that limited my options for an entertainment system.

I'm with you there. We do have cable though because my wife loves TV. I much prefer the internet and I actually have two flat panel monitors which together cost more than the TV.