[jerf]

No. The requirement of having a massive vacuum tube has already put you over a modern LCD when you look at cost of goods, shipping (bigger boxes), stocking, etc. There's no way. If you bend and twist and spindle the definition of "CRT" until you've got something that can compete just to win the argument you'll find that you've created something that no normal person would recognize as a "CRT".

Technology is not a magic force that just ambiently shrinks everything. The resulting products have to correspond to real configuration of atoms that can be really manufactured and really sold in the real world. The base specifications for what you need to A: have a vacuum chamber that B: doesn't mind being constantly bombarded by electrons and the resulting radiation for decades at a time is not something that is going to magically get to a one-inch depth for a 60-inch TV.