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Took an old crt pc monitor out of storage, have some bad news... (slrpnk.net)
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... Dracula's eyes still look like two red pixels. I guess my crt isn't crt enough. Maybe if I smear some Vaseline all over it.

But in all seriousness, still not sure how I feel. Something seems different about the visuals, and it is nostalgic. I might try to change up my setup to use it as a second display, but I think if I had fallen for the hype and spent $100+ on one of these, I would have been very disappointed.

Today's crt filters on modern displays is more than enough for fun effects, but I would never characterize any of this as objective improvements.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

PC VGA monitors were always sharper than CRT TVs. Even back in the day the pixels on lower-resolution games were clearly-distinguishable squares. You had to get up to 640x480 or so for blending to start happening.

The blending effect people talk about with old console games happened on TVs, not monitors, even if the monitors were CRTs.