To be fair, it's only "almost no latency" if you just care about the pixels at the top of the screen. Since CRTs (and LCDs) draw the image over the course of a

To be fair, it's only "almost no latency" if you just care about the pixels at the top of the screen. Since CRTs (and LCDs) draw the image over the course of a full frame, it's more fair to say 8.3ms, since that's when the middle of the screen will be drawn (at 60Hz). This is pretty comparable to modern gaming monitors, which have around 8.5-10ms of input delay @60Hz. Where CRTs do have an advantage over LCDs is response time, which is generally a few ms even on the best monitors but basically nonexistent on CRTs. But overall, a good monitor is only about half a frame worse than a CRT in terms of latency if you account for response time. At higher refresh rates it's even less of an issue; I'm not aware aware of any CRTs that can do high refresh rates at useful resolutions. Got my numbers by glancing at a few RTINGS.com reviews: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/by-usage/gaming https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/by-usage/gaming