>>936The main thing is going to be in your face which is the price, if you want to get a really good CRT it's going to cost too much and as much as I love my Trinitron there's no way in hell I would pay 100€ or whatever stupid prices fags are asking these days.
Assuming you can test that it's working or can otherwise confirm that it's working before buying then all the parts inside should be fine at least for now and the most common issues can usually be fixed by just replacing the caps inside and while I don't think it's too hard of a thing to do, messing with tube monitors can be rather intimidating to newbies but you won't kill yourself doing it as long as you read up before poking any anode caps with a screwdriver.
An issue I had with mine was that the previous owner had stored it away for over a decade and not very well so the anti-glare coating on the screen was damaged which looked quite ugly but if you don't mind it being extra reflective and have a few hours to spend scrubbing away at it with a magic sponge you can get quite good results. In some cases it's a film that can usually be peeled off after you take off the front bezel.
They are big and heavy and eat up quite a lot of power, the weight part doesn't really matter because I don't know why the hell you'd be lugging a 30kg monitor around anymore unless you're going to a retro LAN party. I don't mind the power consumption but especially if you have a small room that thing is going to serve as a great heater especially in the warm months if you have any.
Finally actually hooking it up does require you to most likely get a digital to analog converter since I don't think any GPUs from the past 6-7 years have any analog output but if you have any analog output but if you have a VGA port or a DVI-A/DVI-I port on the back of yours you're good to go and at worst require a cheap passive adapter.
Cheap chinkshit adapters will work but the resolution is usually going to be restricted so with my 4€ HDMI->VGA adapter I can only run it at 1600x1200@85Hz instead of the actual maximum the monitor can do which is 2048x1536@80. Also at least on Gahnoo+Linux with nvidia drivers it doesn't allow you to set any custom resolutions and instead is restricted to a few common 5:4 and 4:3 ones.
I'm willing to bet this is an nvidia issue if anything knowing their history. I can set it to whatever custom one I want on another computer with intel integrated graphics and a VGA output running Linux.
All in all if you can get your hands on a working monitor for a good price or even free and don't mind it being big and hungry then I really recommend picking one up, it's great for old anime.