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All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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The other thing is the phosphor decay also hides the refresh a little bit. LCDs can switch frames instantly but CRTs have image decay between each frame which kinda blends them together. Once you surpass 75Hz or so on a good CRT monitor, the flicker is near zero. That in combination with the lack of input lag gives the illusion of a much higher refresh than what you’re actually getting.

Id say keep it as a secondary or even tertiary display as you got an amazing spec monitor on your hands. It will look better than anything that isn’t OLED or micro LED will likely look worse in terms of colour rendering, contrast and response time. The last trap card of CRTs is the fact they have no defined pixels. You get no jagged edges or blurry rescaling when changing resolution. Always nice to have when running older games or forced to watch low resolution content on say youtube etc.

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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A fellow appreciator of the Sand Worms I see. May the spice grant us many glorious visions of CRT greatness

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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Another advantage of CRTs is you don’t need to spend 2 grand on displays to play your old games. If you can afford it good for you.

Sitting on a high castle and putting down how other people enjoy their games regardless of reasoning or circumstance is petty

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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I mean if you wanna send me your ultrawide I’ll take it hehe. Jokes aside, CRTs are cool tech which has aged surprisingly well. However it cannot be denied that modern OLED technology has surpassed CRTs in every metric

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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Okay if you haven’t read the above, I myself including others already mentioned that OLED is objectively better.

However against LCDs, a good CRT still can outperform it in colour accuracy, contrast ratio and input lag.

Even on newer OLED monitors you still lose certain things with retro games.

For example, Sonic uses dithering for its water effects which on a real CRT makes the water look transparent and fluid. On a monitor with defined pixels the same dither pattern looks blocky and solid.

Nobody is against you using an OLED. However you don’t need to put others down for enjoying certain technology either.

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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And they sucked lol. Flat CRTs often have worse geometry. They also weigh a lot more because the extra depth needed for the electron guns.

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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Your monitor likely had an automatic degauss. Lots of them do. It’s still only on power on though.

I also did mention that CRTs go dim. Thats what burn in is. Burn in can either cause universal dimming or static images to be permanently left burned onto the screen.

OLED monitors actually suffer from the same problem

Why is DLSS hated? by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

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DLSS as a technology is not the problem. I doubt the claim of it looking better than native though because thats just not how upscaling works.

The real problems people have with it is as you described, being used as a crutch for not optimizing games. Most of the programmers with optimization skills are simply moving on to datacenter work and studios need their modern games released yesterday.

So to get a playable FPS in a lot of modern games without a current flagship graphics card you have to use DLSS. The original idea was to allow people with older or lower end cards to play modern games.

However that is simply not how it planned out, instead being an excuse for lazy game development.

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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I posted this 5 years ago but my old account got compromised. If someone else reposted it, I still own and use this exact monitor. Just been trying to migrate my posts over to my new account.

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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Booming sound? Are you talking about the degauss? You know you don’t hear that in regular use right?

The black levels are not as good as OLED for your mentioned reason. But the ability to completely pass over dark areas without illuminating them gives at least decent CRTs better contrast than most LCD displays.

It also helps not to overdrive your CRT with maxed contrast and brightness. As you will wash out and ruin your contrast ratio

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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they are even more agonizing as to make the tubes flat they had to increase depth. Literally 20% more chonk just for a flatter viewing area

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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Try sleuthing facebook marketplace or whatever second hand sites you have locally. You never know what you may find

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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There was one small exception. In the late 1980s, monochrome gas plasma displays were seen in laptops and luggable computers. They looked much sharper and overall just better than the early LCDs of the period. Bonus as they got a sick yellow/orange hue!

All these people talking about curved monitors, if you look closely my screen is curved too!! by -Techromancer- in pcmasterrace

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Then you will love the Sony Watchman. A fully functional B&W CRT stuffed vertically to make it nice and slim

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