Readers from Australia can purchase the SyncMaster 900SL and 900P from Aus PC Market . Yes, it really is free. No, they won't spam you.
Big monitors are cool.
But big monitors are also expensive. If they gave 'em away for nothing, we'd all be using 21 inch NECs or Sonys. And the answer, happily, is yes. The reason for this is simple enough. CRTs are evacuated - there's nothing in them but vacuum.