I have a Viewsonic 20.5" widesceen and love it. I had a CRT a few years back , but the EMF's off it were giving me headaches so I would recommend a LCD. Stay away from CRT they are a dead technology. I heard all of the CRT plants are shutting down. As far as the argument that CRT monitor's are better resolution or have more detail I didn't find this, but definetly hook up the "digital" cable to the LCD and not the "analog" cable when attaching the monitor to the CPU. Digital is much clearer. Just my opinion