An impressive effort has been made to replicate the exact appearance of old CRT televisions on modern LCD and OLED panels. The page I’ve linked is very well written.
Edges@lemmy.zipEnglish
7 daysThis is why I have a CRT with a rasberrypi hooked up to it. Much easier than trying to find the perfect filters.
- TheJesusaurus@piefed.caEnglish7 days
As a 90s kid it’s pretty funny to see, we were so impressed with every new increase in graphic fidelity in games and TV. The idea of deliberately trying to replicate a CRT nowadays tickles me
- 7 days
Because playing games designed on CRTs on a modern TV and at modern resolutions is an objective visual downgrade in almost every single case, except for a tiny select few cases.
- mrfriki@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
Ii don’t think it’s replicating it for the shake of it. It’s more, kind of, to experience pixel art closer to the way it was designed.
- Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
It depends. Graphics weren’t spiky pixels as you can recall. That produced a far softer image, aside from scanlines and all the other stuff.
By now I can hardly play retro games from that time without shader, since the impression is auch a difference.
And I always was a pc player (from 8086/8088 on) and my consoles from mega drive on always used scart.
Still.
- TheJesusaurus@piefed.caEnglish7 days
Oh I love the nostalgia of it all of course. But we couldn’t wait to get rid of CRTs at the time is all. Such is life
- worhui@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
For me it was the fact that I couldn’t use my tv as a computer monitor, I retired my crt as soon as I could use an lcdfor both vga and tv. The monitor looked worse on most thing but had crystal clear text.
- thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish7 days
I keep harping on this, but this is a massive regret - sure they were bulky and power hungry, but I would sell a kidney (not necessarily mine) to be able to buy a modern CRT to enjoy my old PS1 light gun games (Pount Blank, Ghoul Panic, Rescue Shot, Time Crisis etc.) again.



