> I started to warm to CRTs, maybe a fondness when I realised I hadn’t had to seriously use one for over a decade.
Same here, and now I'm looking for a CRT monitor because I don't remember anymore how it is to use one. Did the low resolution games look better on them? After more than 10 years I can't really recall the difference.
> Did the low resolution games look better on them?
Yes.
The standard way of seeing pixel art in modern indie games, the edges of everything are too harsh. CRT filters exist, but most kinda suck, though there's an occasional good one (Cyber Shadow does an excellent job).
There's also the issue of input lag. CRT's have virtually zero input lag beyond just their refresh rate, whereas for LCD/Plasma/OLED it's more substantial. In more recent years things have gotten better, with more and more TV's getting decent latencies (< 25ms) at least in game mode, but for a while there you were commonly looking at like 80-120ms lag times with no recourse for a given TV.
I have a 21 inch trinitron crt and hooked it up to the pc over vga to play some modern games on it and it’s hard to describe how different of an experience it is over lcds. It’s great even though the resolution is lower you don’t notice it as much because you don’t see scaling artifacts and response latency is super low.
I honestly didn't think I noticed the "ghosting" in LCDs until I started using a 144hz display. Now I can't unsee the mouse trails on most LCD displays.
Same here, and now I'm looking for a CRT monitor because I don't remember anymore how it is to use one. Did the low resolution games look better on them? After more than 10 years I can't really recall the difference.