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posted by martyb on Saturday October 12 2019, @01:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the for-some-values-of-phenomenal dept.

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...


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @09:44AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @09:44AM (#906281)

    If your "+5" isn't you upvoting yourself from a bunch of sockpuppet accounts, I despair of tech "knowledge" of Soylentils. :(

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Saturday October 12 2019, @12:49PM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Saturday October 12 2019, @12:49PM (#906310)

    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.