And I think there are actually already some very good ones out there.
But at least we can all agree that just drawing a black line every second line isn't the way to go.

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So basically you're saying that 4k resolution finally have an usage other than pure commercial?Sumez wrote:That said, you could make a filter that comes very close to looking like what one particular CRT could look like, especially with the monitor resolutions that are available today.
Yes, this is a very important aspect of it. If the beam isn't interlacing it is concentrating twice as much light on half the space (i.e. no change in overall intensity vs. interlaced mode). There is no equivalent range of intensity on an LCD with emulated scanlines. Plus CRTs are brighter than LCDs just as a baseline factor, even before taking into account scanlines.psycopathicteen wrote:If a CRT has dark spaces between lines, the lines are usually bright enough to compensate for it. On an LCD you can't have black and white stripes and still make it look white.
The "solution" is to just have a cranked up LCD backlight, but that's kind of janky. No matter how you look at it, emulating scanlines sacrifices total luminosity.rainwarrior wrote:Yes, this is a very important aspect of it. If the beam isn't interlacing it is concentrating twice as much light on half the space (i.e. no change in overall intensity vs. interlaced mode). There is no equivalent range of intensity on an LCD with emulated scanlines. Plus CRTs are brighter than LCDs just as a baseline factor, even before taking into account scanlines.psycopathicteen wrote:If a CRT has dark spaces between lines, the lines are usually bright enough to compensate for it. On an LCD you can't have black and white stripes and still make it look white.
Yeah, I was overstating it a little but I did mean in general, and I was a little bit conflating with contrast, i.e. turning up the backlight will also noticably raise the black level. ...but some LCDs are better than others, of course, and the technology has improved over the years.mikejmoffitt wrote:The "solution" is to just have a cranked up LCD backlight, but that's kind of janky. No matter how you look at it, emulating scanlines sacrifices total luminosity.
To say CRTs are brighter than LCDs is a bit of an umbrella statement that's untrue in a lot of cases, but your average CRT TV / 15Khz monitor in good shape will be very bright. A PC CRT is often quite a bit dimmer.