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Some current cheap CRT sets are pretty bad. I've seen poor geometry, poor convergence, poor focus and blooming/bleeding on bright scenes. Some of these may benefit from adjustment (if can work out the service menu without the probably nonexistant service manual), others are just bad/cheap design (poorly power supply regulation, etc).
However they are not all bad. Considering how bad the picture looks on some of the LCD and plasma sets I've seen it wouldn't surprise me that stores were intentional misadjusting the remaining CRT sets to make them look worse.
I will be sticking with CRT for as long as I can. I have seen a couple of nice plasma sets, but as they only look that good under ideal conditions (digital source preferably at the panel's native resolution) they are just too limiting for me.
As a side note some recent LCD rear projection sets are starting to hit the curbs around here. I passed on a Toshiba that needed a new bulb after reading various reports that the $400+ bulbs only last a couple of years.
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