I'm sure your wife will understand that you want to do this MSX thing properly. 
You just have to have a CRT monitor, otherwise it's a spoiled fake experience. The 15-incher isn't that big really.
Yes, I was not thinking about...
... even 10" is good when you put your nose close enough... Take one empty case of beers to garage and you have saved the space.
For the record, I have two modern Samsung LCD TVs (46" and 24") and they both show a sharp and stable MSX image. Though a bit huge in the case of the 46" one 
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Sharpness and stability isn't an issue, it's that the picture is Wrong(tm). All graphical stuff looks very different than what it was _intended_ to look like. By using flatscreen displays you're looking at a distorted view. It's like running all your audio through some forced autotune. It's just as wrong as if you had printed the frames on paper using a laser printer. And not just the picture as a still image, but motion looks wrong too.
Just the other week I tested a DVD player on the CRT monitor by playing some home videos, and my son who's naturally used to flatscreens, commented on the picture like, "hey that looks like 3D!" 
Yeah, sort of. CRT does much of the magic.
The XRGB mini "Framemeister" gets a lot of praise, and it might be a solution to the awful image and motion spoiling. But it costs more than a Turbo R GT...
Although CRT has its advantages such as better colour reproduction, I like the flatness, large size and sharpness of LCD screens. Lag isn’t bad if you put the TV in game mode which disables most image processing. Also there’s no flicker, high pitched noise or static electricity, nor extremely high voltages going through a piece of antiquated hardware right in front of you.
So I’d say that it’s a balance of several factors and which is preferred is a matter of opinion . But more importantly, these matters are also completely unrelated to guiseve’s troubles. So although I totally respect your opinions, I can understand why you prefer CRT, I don’t see why it is relevant here.
