Always! It’s a 24/7 party around here.
There are QLED TVs that are matching the color accuracy of OLED, and with excellent black levels that surpass a CRT’s. I think emissive displays do tend to look better in general, though, for reasons that are difficult to pinpoint. OLED clearly has the upper hand when it comes to viewing angle; there’s no loss of image quality at all when viewed at an angle.
From what I’ve seen, the frame-hold time at 60fps is much lower on QLED vs. OLED, so the stutter shouldn’t be as bad. I’ve also noticed that hardware-based strobing methods tend to make this problem worse, while software-based BFI tends to make it better, but I’m not sure why.
In a side by side comparison with my actual CRT monitor vs my LCD with BFI enabled, the LCD actually looks like it has greater motion clarity, but that might be down to screen size and the phosphor persistence on the CRT. I use “soft eyes” a lot when playing retro games (particularly shoot em ups), and motion blur reduction is most beneficial when eye-tracking an individual object, so individual play style tactics and the type of game also come into play, here. Someone who plays a lot of FPS games as a sniper, for example, will see greater benefit in reducing motion blur even more than what 120Hz + BFI is capable of.
The ideal would be 240Hz with ON:OFF:OFF:OFF cadence for 60fps content, but that’s a 75% reduction in brightness, and I’m not sure there are any 240Hz displays that have sufficient brightness to compensate for this and CRT emulation.
That’s a fair summary.
I have a CRT on my desk and 3 more in my closet; they’re fantastic displays but they’re getting old and all of them need a bit of work. It’s actually getting hard to find a good CRT monitor these days that doesn’t need a bit of work. Craigslist has pretty much completely dried up where I live. I can clean and recap the monitors, but eventually one of the components is just going to fail entirely, and sourcing a replacement could be difficult and expensive, if not impossible. I’m encouraged by the progress being made by modern displays, and I’m optimistic that with a few more years of R&D into quantum dots, we’ll have displays that do everything we need for a true CRT replacement. We’re getting very close with current displays, though!