Re: Modern Games Look UNBELIEVABLE on CRT Monitors
Posted: 27 Jun 2026, 12:38
No matter how you try to justify this, you cannot change physics, a CRT is an impulse display, there is no modern equivalent of it, the physics of a CRT being analog in nature like the human eye is analog this makes it very compatible for viewing motion.betonKruglosuTotchno wrote: ↑13 Jun 2026, 09:06Is that your personal experience? Would be unfortunate if you were reposting somebody's opinion without verifying their claims.
1) Author of the video plays at 1600x1200 and claims it's better than 4k.
2) Author of the video there is zero motion blur on CRT despite phosphor phosphor afterglow/persistence.
3) Author of the video claims that BFI reduces brightness while there are many LCDs with BFI which are brighter than his IBM CRT in any conditions
4) Author of the video compares CRT to OLED when BFI exists and specifically 3 months after Nvidia Pulsar came to market (even if you ignore Titan Army non-Nvidia monitors which were released September 2025).
5) Author of the video completely omits what the contrast ratio of CRT is.
I'm upset about all those shortcomings of the video you are happy about.
Can you quantify that?Supermodel_Evelynn wrote: ↑13 Apr 2026, 19:52modern strobing ... cannot come close to replicating CRT
alta vista: Nvidia Pulsar
Even if you introduce backlight strobing to an LCD you still have to address the elephant in the room which is the fact that LCD has major issues, TN has garbage viewing angle, IPS suffer from IPS glow and they `look terrible in dark environment where as a CRT operates like an OLED since the electron gun can draw each pixel (line) individually.
Also backlight strobing is inferior on an LCD, it has cross talk problems causing image duplication top and bottom of the screen even Zowie DYAC 2 is trash at this.
Lets say you use a 1000HZ display to solve the issue, you still aren't getting 1000 FPS in 99.9% of titles making it largely useless anyways.
Even if you use frame generation (Interpolation by any other name with added latency especially since it drops base FPS just to enable it) nobody wants this nasty soap opera effect and AI nastiness generating fake frames which has all sorts of nasty artifacts, nobody wants this and people are rejecting it more and more everyday.
MANY MANY modern games are also locked to 60 FPS including all those pixel art games on Steam, all those Souls Like games, fighting games like Street Fighter, Tekken, Mortal Kombat all huge massive selling games.
Also as I said before a CRT is glass, this means you never have to worry about the ugly cheap garbage matte coating they put on modern displays you can just peel it off, (Which is why I spent $700 USD on a OLED Monitor it was specifically to get a glossy coating)
As for your question if I ever used a CRT, I own a old Sony Trinitron, I play Super Metroid Hacks (Mods) and Castlevania 3 NES etc it's fucking marvelous, Emulation on it it absolutely destroys my OLED 240HZ.
I specifically own a PC running a Video Card with S-Video output and it's just absolutely marvelous.
The current crop of gamers today have absolutely NO idea what they gave up when they decided to embrace Sample and Hold technology.
If people really knew just how good impulse displays are for gaming or even sports, they would be demanding Sony and Panasonic go back to developing CRT of heck surface-conduction electron-emitter display technology at bare minimum. Last estimate was between $500 Million to $1 Billion USD to get mass production of something like this up and running but the demand simply wasn't there so the industry doubled down on OLED instead.
Not the manufacturers fault that people were too stupid or ignorant to understand how these technology works. They gave manufacturers the dream they have always been looking for (Producing cheap disposable junk that's quick and easy to make and difficult or not worth repairing) and now that it is gone there may never be a way to bring it back.
Also there is novelty in owning a CRT, It's an Analog Electron Gun drawing an image from scratch, it's a cool ass piece of tech, there is no such soul in any modern display. Why do you think so many people still spend money on Headphone Amp vacuum Tubes or tube guitar amps.
I have however accepted that CRT is never coming back (Unless Elon Musk a Trillionaire who has already stated that CRT is superior for gaming and he prefers CRT, decides to bring it back as a hobby and sell it as a loss) Some people have been messaging him on Twitter for some time now about it, and yes he does these types of odd random projects like buying Twitter or running Grok which costs billions to operate at a loss. It's a long shot maybe he might do it, never know as a billion dollars is nothing to him.