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We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal :
It's true. Running modern games on a vintage CRT monitor produces absolutely outstanding results - subjectively superior to anything from the LCD era, up to and including the latest OLED displays. Best suited for PC players, getting an optimal CRT set-up isn't easy, and prices vary dramatically, but the results can be simply phenomenal.
The advantages of CRT technology over modern flat panels are well-documented. CRTs do not operate from a fixed pixel grid in the way an LCD does - instead three 'guns' beam light directly onto the tube. So there's no upscaling blur and no need to run at any specific native resolution as such. On lower resolutions, you may notice 'scan lines' more readily, but the fact is that even lower resolution game outputs like 1024x768 or 1280x960 can look wonderful. Of course, higher-end CRTs can input and process higher resolutions, but the main takeaway here is that liberation from a set native resolution is a gamechanger - why spend so many GPU resources on the amount of pixels drawn when you can concentrate on quality instead without having to worry about upscale blurring?
Are there any Soylentils here who still use a CRT for gaming? If I could just find a CRT with a 65-inch diagonal, and a table that could support the weight...
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @01:26AM (9 children)
Color CRTs have either stripes or triads of phosphor dots, so it low-pass filters all the
edges you'd see on an LCD.
These people piss their pants over vinyl records too.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @01:42AM
Shut the fuck up, you old turd. Gamers don't value knowledge.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @02:50AM (4 children)
And focus.
And convergence.
No, I do not wanna go back to CRT's.
I finally tossed the last of my multisyncs. Every one of em were blurred...so much so it didn't make much difference whether I have my glasses on or not.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @03:41AM (1 child)
And literal boat anchor.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @04:08AM
Plus the 150W+ they would use.
You can get the same effect with higher res and a 'CRT' filter on most things. Aliasing and ghosting is what they are seeing. It does look good. But not very 'sharp' (contrast, color accuracy).
Also many LCD panels have fairly poor color gamut at about 6 bits per channel. The problem is the 8 to 10bit ones are pricey. Whereas a CRT has a pretty wide range per triad pixel being analog. LCDs also have a nasty issue with blacks. Due to light leakage. This causes blacks to look grey/muddy. Better lighting in the device helps a lot.
(Score: 2) by hwertz on Saturday October 12 2019, @06:10AM
Honestly your CRTs must have been real cheap specimens; mine all had convergence adjustments on them; usually I never had to adjust it, and in the few I did adjusting it kept them nice and sharp.
That said.. my last two CRTs went within the last year or two. One I kept using daily until it got too dim; the other I only powered up like once or twice a month (hooked up to a home file server). I kept it there mainly because (as a 21" CRT) it weighed like 150 lbs. and I simply didn't feel like lugging it away when it still worked. It would not power up after a good thunderstorm came through.
Do I miss them? Not really. My CRTs had a good picture, but my LCD monitors do too.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Saturday October 12 2019, @02:50PM
Yeah fuck those automobiles and their constant need for oil and brake pads...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday October 12 2019, @06:43AM
resolution independent would have been a better def, anyway you are empirically proven wrong by just connecting to an old CRT and watching a DVD or a game at reduced res. The usual American style rationalization, your facts are right but insufficient to determine an outcome.
I used a crt and a minimal old debian to play cube 2 sauerbraten and MAME.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @09:44AM (1 child)
If your "+5" isn't you upvoting yourself from a bunch of sockpuppet accounts, I despair of tech "knowledge" of Soylentils. :(
(Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Saturday October 12 2019, @12:49PM
Indeed, there seems to be a lot of brainwashed consumertardism in the comments here.
The ONLY real disadvantage to CRTs are the size and the weight.
An office building full of 9,000 CRTs running 8 hours a day or more would waste a lot of power. But for a gamer who likely has a video card setup that requires 16x integrated nuclear reactors just to power it, running a CRT for a little while is just a drop in the bucket.
The whole x-ray thing is just FUD for idiots that can't comprehend scale. Hey, your bananas are radioactive, call a hazmat team! It is a well known fact that people can drown in water, so everyone should stay away from glasses of water! Idiots.
Earlier color CRTs had poor dot pitch, but many of the later ones were razor sharp. It is unfortunate a lot of people missed out on those. Anyone who has not seen one should see some of the monochrome computer monitors, such as the first Macintosh or vector games like Asteroids or Battlezone, in person. Those can't even compare to LCD screens.