i can clear things up about gaming on both kinds of monitors. I have been a serious quakr player since 1999 and have a lot of gaming experience. I also have the experience of an array of crts and own a couple, and also own a xerox 8ms tft.
The way current technology is, i wouldn't even consider using a tft for gaming, especially not fps games where you have the graphics card outputting high frames per second, like Quake3 for example at 125fps steady. The crt when set to 120hz refresh rate really displays the smoothness that you'd expect to see from such a high frame output, and is completely responsive the way it should be.
The tft on the other hand is TERRIBLE for this. It is as if so much information is missing, and the frames just belnd into each other. Your eyes become acustomed to the tft display pretty soon, and you kind of accept it, and begin to forget how much better the crt was. Then the realisation sets in if you then plug the crt back in and suddenly the game comes alive again in all it's smooth responsive beauty.
If you are hardcore into gaming, do not purchase a tft with the hope that it could better, let alone match your decent/high-end crt. Tft's are way off at the moment. I look forward to the day when a thinner, lighter option than a crt becomes available for gaming, which matches or supersedes it. I'll be one of the first on the bandwagon then.
