I used to have an AOC 17" CRT for my comp, but it finally burned out on my after 5-6 yrs of... well i'm going to say abuse with the amount of time it was on. Now i have a 19" LCD flatscreen from Samsung and i absolutly love it!
It has dura-bright included so it doesn't have the darkness problem when playing HL2, or any other dark game
What i like best is getting the 10-12 inches of desk space back.