A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)
Heh, everything is better on Tubes whether it is guitar amps or gaming monitors? :-)<p>I can pretty much assure you that with a 240Hz refresh rate 4K LCD monitor it will look better than your CRT :-) But it is perfectly valid to say &quot;What is the best experience I can get for $X?&quot; and find that CRT solutions out perform LCD solutions at various price points.<p>That said, I suspect it is less about the &quot;superiority&quot; of the CRT than it is about the corners cut by the LCD manufacturer in terms of display fidelity. A <i>lot</i> of the early &quot;high res&quot; displays got there by sacrificing video image quality.<p>That those monitors aren&#x27;t great for gaming is not surprising, it is also not surprising if that was the only monitor you&#x27;ve ever gamed on, when you saw gaming on a better image experience you would be impressed.<p>If you consider the amount of RAM and processing power you have to have <i>inside</i> the monitor at 4K resolution you start to understand why there is a thing like nVidia&#x27;s G-Sync technology. That is a lot of bits to throw around. Similarly, a monitor that processes the 4k video stream down to 1080p, and has 10 or even 12 bit dynamic range on the pixels with full motion emulation might give you a better looking display than a 4K display.<p>So many ways to optimize for particular markets.