"A color CRT had no native resolution" That is patently untrue, otherwise we'd have had 8K CRTs long ago. Maximum for CRTs that I've ever had was 2048x1536. "

"A color CRT had no native resolution" That is patently untrue, otherwise we'd have had 8K CRTs long ago. Maximum for CRTs that I've ever had was 2048x1536. "Obviously the phosphor dots didn't move around when you did this." No but when you suddenly move to a hexagonal configuration, you've just wrecked color gamut because you've now got groupings with a missing phosphor (ideally in the center) adding a black tone overall. I used to work as a TV repairman, and I've worked in TV manufacturing plants as a design engineer. To address your next point "Whatever problems might have stood in the way of using a hexagonal pixel layout on a color CRT, the phosphor dot or stripe layout wasn't among them." That's how we discovered 30-ish years ago that a hexagonal layout was a BAD IDEA because it wrecked color gamut AND increased X-ray radiation emitted because of lower rates of absorption due to large holes in phosphor arrangements (that was back then, again, nanotech now days might alleviate that using much smaler phosphors.) "Even on a Trinitron display there was no connection between logical pixels and the aperture grill spacing." It was there for the purpose of beam convergence, which would make a 'sharp' pixel or 'blurry' pixel no matter your chosen resolution. So yes, it's most certainly connected. "So if my complaint bothers you, here's my offer: downvote this comment and upvote lightedman's parent comment, which received some downvotes that I think were undeserved. Fair deal?" No, let them downvote me. It adds to my friend's psychology paper on how people are too lazy to speak up and instead talk with a simple mouse click (Highlighted/targeted websites - Reddit, HackerNews, and Slashdot.)