CRTs are definitely much better than OLED or LCD in one major aspect: Motion clarity. OLED and LCD are sample-and-hold screens, meaning they will display a frame for the entirety of a frame time, like 1/60th of a second at 60 FPS. A CRT displays frames just for a fraction of the frame time (the rest of the time they are dark), which prevents perceptible blur when our eyes track moving objects, which they do all the time in order to prevent blur. More details here: