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I love CRT displays myself. The standard 50/60hz is a bit rough, unless one is working on a high persistence phosphor. Older monochrome, amber, green screens

I love CRT displays myself. The standard 50/60hz is a bit rough, unless one is working on a high persistence phosphor. Older monochrome, amber, green screens often have that phosphor. I like how simple they are to drive too. Managing a high resolution analog stream takes far fewer resources. For personal electronics, retro fun, I recommend one. Glowing phosphor in a glass tube just rocks! There were variations too. I got to work on one of these in the 80's: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T-F7ZySfgZ0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T-F7ZySfgZ0 In a dim room, these are beautiful. Up to 4k resolution in the 70's, no display buffer. Surprisingly techy looking and feeling. I will miss CRTs when they are no longer available. They should be made in 16:9 for a while longer. People would use them. All that said, current flat panels continue to improve. They are fine for the majority of things most of us do.

ddingus 6y ago
Just a late edit: My favorite thing to watch on CRT displays is well produced SD programs. They look really good. At the peak of SD, I had tuned a great Sony to near what a PVM can do. Watching DVD movies on that via RGB OR component in a dark room was a good experience. Huge dynamic range. The occasional trail from a bright entity in the program. Real black. In many ways, many of us did not experience what was lost in the tech change. This revival makes sense in some ways. Look at vinyl. It is a similar thing. The overall experience is really good. Gratifying. Fact is, where there are limits, there is art. A great vinyl production is something I appreciate a lot. A similar one done digitally actually sounds better, but the art is not there. The CRT is art. We had limits and the CRT bubbles up out of that just nailing it.