Just to check: when were you growing up? In the CRT, it was often possible to see the physical pixels (i.e. the phosphors and the rows defined by the shadow ma

Just to check: when were you growing up? In the CRT, it was often possible to see the physical pixels (i.e. the phosphors and the rows defined by the shadow mask), but there was not necessarily any guarantee that a logical pixel lined up with a physical pixel.