For those questioning the hoopla surrounding flat panel monitor, it may be easiest to simply go to your nearest electronics store and check them out for yourself. That will be your ultimate selling point. However if you'd like to whet your appetite a bit prior to considering making purchasing decisions here are some benefits of flat panel monitors.

You generally get more viewable space for comparable cathode ray tube monitors (those cubish shaped monitors). Other tangible benefits of flat panel monitors is that they offer greater focus, convergence, geometry, configuration features, better resolution, greater high density dot pitch making things like even fonts super clear, and more. They simply outclass cathode ray tube monitors in every way.

For those who are involved with multimedia professionally such as image and graphics editing, or even if you use multimedia applications such as watching home movies and pictures, flat panels provide a crystal clear view that cathode ray monitors simply cannot provide.

Those are just some of the benefits, your best bet is to simply get your hands on some flat panel monitors on display and see if they are worth your while. Don't be surprised if you like countless others make the switch as you fall in love at first sight.