what i liked about crt's was the toughness. you could slap, punch or hit the glass tube and the screen would be fine. there were so many pics of screens destroyed by nintendo wii controllers that would have bounced off a crt. even pointing out numbers on a spreadsheet can cause a modern screen to be damaged if it's not done carefully. and of course all the cats miss the warm shelf they could sleep on while they watched their human work. :-)