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Took an old crt pc monitor out of storage, have some bad news... (slrpnk.net)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, size and weight aside I feel like the CRTs I've used in the past weren't close to the quality of the ones people show on 'CRTs are amazing' videos.

I have no idea if it actually works for pixel effects, but the only CRT filter I like is triangular filter (offset rows gives honeycomb-ish pattern rather than lines/screen-door effect). Which would likely also make finding a CRT I actually like harder too.

EDIT: And I could take-or-leave the filter still (except for when it clashes with CRT effects in games), though I do like what it does for 2D (UI elements and pre-rendered stuff) plus toning down the brightness on full-white screens (like intros/logos especially).

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