You might have a look here and do a search on the subject.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1004 The site is photography oriented but there has been a lot of traffic on monitors. Top grade CRT monitors are becoming hard to find and those that are available are expensive.
There are LCD panels that are down to very low response times aimed at the gaming market and the 16:9 ratio wide screens are the size for watching DVD format.