First, it's CRT, big, huge, hot and bright. Colors look great and it was good enough for everyone.

Then ppl started to whine about it's XBOX HUGE SIZE, it's HOT like a sun temperature and it's eye blinding light. So people started to work on an alternative.....

It came ... in the form of LCD, the first LCD however ...... SUX!! Viewing angles are horrible, if you stand anywhere BUT straight at the LCD panel, you'll see practically nothing. But then ... improvements!! Color started to look better, viewing angles are increased, blackness is blacker and colors are more vibrant.

But .... to many, it's a flawed technology on the get go. Color banding, shadowing, dead/lazy pixels, response time and back light bleeding makes even a meager CRT better than the most expensive LCD when it comes to accurate color representation.

As of today, no uber expensive LCD can shoot down a decent CRT. Sure it's slimmer, sure it's not so hot, bigger viewable area ...... but for serious gamers, graphic designer, artist ....  It just doesnt quite cut it.

It's not all that bad, LCD has it's advantages, and every year there's more improvements by major manufacturers to make it even more attractive. In the form of higher contrast ratio, wide screen format, faster response time, better and accurate color representation, lesser back light bleeding, etc.

However .... one wonders .... is there no better solutions to the many issues of LCD and CRT? Oh but there is.... there's quite a few actually.

SED, FED, OLED, etc. The next generation of better, faster, orgasmic inducing monitors. mhhhh.

but wait... what's this?

SED, in layman's term. it's tiny CRT tube cramped into a flat panel. Hence a FLAT CRT, so to speak. Equipped with all the greatness of CRT and none of it's weakness.

Problem: Nano Proprietary developed SED, canon approached them in hope of mass producing SED monitors. But canon backhanded Nano by sharing information related to electron emissions from carbon nanotubes with Toshiba. Nano is pissed, hence LAWSUIT. The legal mumbo jumbo dragged on and on and on ............ we were suppose to be able to buy our very first SED monitor early 2006, but all the production facility of toshiba and canon are left to rust and cannot do anything due to the lawsuit. Nano wants to settle out of court, but canon is confident that they will win the case. So it drags and drags and drags and well ..... lets just say by the time SED comes out, your kids would be using it. NOT YOU!!!

ok, lets put SED aside, we still have OLED right? It looks promising right?

Problem: Oh really? the "O" in OLED stands for organic, and like all organic things, it is subjected to organic decay (in a way). So OLED monitors, though bright and vibrant and slim .... isnt matured enough to be marketed ... there are improvements in the development of OLED, the average lifetime of OLED monitors has been increasing, so its not exactly a flawed technology, maybe in time, it will be perfected. But again the "T" word. I mean "TIME". HOW MUCH TIME?!! 5 years?!!

Ok, scratch that, lets wait for FED.

Well, lets do, wait that is.

Problem: here's an interesting bit from wikipedia (I know, its not the most reliable source, but hey, lets just enjoy this bit):
hmmm, production starts in late 2006. Now it's the end of the first quarter of 2007. WHERE THE EFF IS MY FED!!!!

that's right ... IN PRODUCTION

niceeeeee.

So here we stand ..... as consumers, looking at the complete mess of rojak that these big azz manufacturers had made for themselves and everybody else. Undecided we stand, confused we stand, wait to the death we stand.

Oh well, I think I'm just going to stick with my 15.9 inches viewable CRT for now, put my thumb up my vagina and WAIT.