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> Not really. For example the switch to LCD monitors from CRT was a step back in quality. LCD was just way cheaper and more convenient as in taking less space t

> Not really. For example the switch to LCD monitors from CRT was a step back in quality. LCD was just way cheaper and more convenient as in taking less space that regardless of worse quality it still took over. That pretty much depends on quality metric. I switched (in late 90s) from big 17" CRT to 14" (TN) LCD just because it has incomparably sharper image and no issues with refresh flickering. Yes, it has crap viewing angles and contrast (and probably also colors), but that does not really matter as much as sharp image.

crabbone 3y ago
> just because it has incomparably sharper image and no issues with refresh flickering. You probably had an extremely bad CRT, but got a very good LCD monitor. Typically, the situation would've been the exact opposite of yours. Early LCDs were incapable of supporting high refresh rates of high-end CRTs (that's why for a long time people in e-sports were using CRTs). Also, the physical "pixels" of best LCD monitors were still bigger than those of CRTs. This is what eventually resulted in OTF fonts adoption with a lot of trickery in sub-pixel interpolation... which sucked a lot when it just started, and still sucks, but not as much.