Flat screens are easier to view from an angle, as your line of sight doesn't approach a tengent of the screen. I've liked mine.

Most TVs have service controls that allow resizing the image. That should have solved the missing CNN scroll problem. But the fact that they calibrated it that far off to begin with would raise flags with me. It could be that their deflection circuitry is poor and causes bad distortion when pulled in further, though that seems the opposite of the problem you'd expect.