Also remember that most LCD monitors have an ideal native resolution. Any other resolution used on them will look less than ideal. Looks like this monitor might use 1024 x 720 or something. Any other resolution shown on such a monitor needs to be re-scaled on the fly to the monitor's native resolution and it usually doesn't look great.
That is the big advantage of CRT monitors. They can re-adjust their scan-rate and vertical/horizontal resolutions to (almost) any spec and it will look great.
I just bought a newer widescreen LCD and although it is stunning in its native resolution, I do miss the old CRT's ability to do crisp 640x400 and 800x600.
