I have a Dell 1600 x 1200 LCD sitting on my desk. Under $700 (Canadian) right now. It also has USB ports to plug stuff in, weighs considerably less than the 20" CRT sitting next to it, a lot less power, so on and so forth. I don't know where the "weird aspect ratio" nonsense comes from. The only ones I've seen that don't fall into the same ratios used on CRTs are the widescreen monitors and the ones on laptops. Otherwise, all I've seen are the same as CRTs. As for the price, I remember when everyone was using 14", maybe 15" CRTs. 17" were luxuries, 20" and above were major investments (which most people didn't bother getting because they didn't have the video power to use that much real estate effectively). The 20" LCD I have at home (and is worth $700 new) has more features than the 20" LCD sitting on my desk at work which is two years old and cost $1200, while the first flatscreen we bought for the office a year earlier, same model, was a tad over $1400. If you compare the price decline with CRTs, the trajectory is pretty damn comparable.