I'm glad to have a 19in CRT nearby my desk, I do enjoy the retro vibes, but the big disadvantage has gotta be their weight and heft. There is no way the average consumer wants a FW900 taking up their entire desk. It would be cool if the CRT industry didn't completely die and instead it existed as a niche product.
I owned one, but I didn't want to. My 21" Trinitron blew up in the final month of its 5-year warranty and they didn't have a way to replace it so they sent me the 24". Crazy, must have cost a fortune for them just to ship it.
It was never the weight of them that bothered me it was the uneven distribution of the weight. 40kg isn't much until it's all shifted to one side (the front) of a cumbersome object.
