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tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I mean, I have some nostalgia moments, but I think that while OP’s got a point that the LCD monitors that replaced CRTs were in many ways significantly technically worse at the time, but I think that in pretty much all aspects, current LCD/LEDs beat CRTs.

Looking at OP’s benefits:

0 motion blur

CRT phosphors didn’t just immediately go dark. They were better than some LCDs at the time, yeah, which were very slow, had enormous cursor trails. But if you’ve ever seen a flashing cursor on a CRT and the fact that it actually faded out, you know that there was some delay.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Comparison_of_CRT,_LCD,_plasma…

Response time: 0.01 ms[14] to less than 1 μs,[15] but limited by phosphor decay time (around 5 ms)[16]

0 input lag

That’s not really a function of the display technology. Yeah, a traditional analog CRT television with nothing else involved just spews the signal straight to the screen, but you can stick processing in there too, as cable boxes did. The real problem was “smart” TVs adding stuff like image processing that involved buffering some video.

At the time that people started getting LCDs, a lot of them were just awful in many respects compared to CRTs.

But those have mostly been dealt with.

CRTs had a lot of problems too, and current LED/LCD displays really address those:

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