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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @05:36AM
Indeed, the savings on power consumption alone since I finally 'retired with extreme prejudice' my CRT displays made me wish I'd done it a couple of years earlier, but I tend to run things until they terminally fail. Economic factors alone meant they had to go, but it still pained me to retire fully functional displays, as no-one wanted them and we didn't have the storage, we had the trainees@work strip them into their component parts for recycling.
Ah, now while *I* don't miss them, especially the heat, at home, however, the older cats still mourn their demise...there's nothing so pathetic as a fully grown Tom cat looking forlornly at the spot formerly occupied by my primary CRT monitor, but which, in his eyes, was *his* massive heated bed..and had been for years.
And there's nothing so funny as said cat trying to figure out how to curl up on top of the LCD replacement...funny, up to the point the stupid big bugger sent the thing flying off the desk when he lost his balance...
..next monitor was wall mounted, and I rigged up an old SGI CRT monitor, electronics gutted and fitted with a heating pad to keep the moggies happy.