Comment by vehemenz

Until relatively recently I'd have agreed but at this point I'd take a modern display over a CRT assuming we're talking about high end. Popular options in the high end are displays like the LG 48 CX or some of the "G-Sync Ultimate" monitors like the Predator x27. These kinds of displays start at prices higher than a 3080 though so you don't hear about the market as much since people usually expect to spend less on a monitor than a GPU and the 3080 is generally consider the top of most high end price ranges.

> But their combination of refresh rate (without blur), image quality, and color reproduction are still second to none.

Not true. A current generation OLED (which will do 120hz) is superior to a CRT.

Even still, on many of those a good LCD has long been better than a good CRT. Color accuracy, for example. CRTs required constant fiddling & calibration to stay good at that, whereas a quality factory calibrated LCD will be much better in an "out of the box" or typical usage. Not really sure what you're calling "image quality" but it's hard to imagine that going any way but solidly in a modern high-end LCDs camp, which are brighter, wider color gamuts, higher resolution, and higher pixel densities than CRTs ever had.

> there must be a market for high end screens for gamers.

There is, which is why we have high resolution, high refresh rate, and adaptive vsync IPS monitors a plenty now. They come in all sorts of shapes & sizes, in resolutions & dimensions CRTs could only dream about.

And it could be streamlined. No need for a bazillion types.

Color and raster flexibility are the two bright spots for me.

Glowing phosphors in tubes is just a great tech.

I too like the feeling of xrays shooting into my eyes point blank for 12 hrs every day.