… Dracula’s eyes still look like two red pixels. I guess my crt isn’t crt enough. Maybe if I smear some Vaseline all over it.
But in all seriousness, still not sure how I feel. Something seems different about the visuals, and it is nostalgic. I might try to change up my setup to use it as a second display, but I think if I had fallen for the hype and spent $100+ on one of these, I would have been very disappointed.
Today’s crt filters on modern displays is more than enough for fun effects, but I would never characterize any of this as objective improvements.
I’m no expert, but weren’t old monitors much different than old tvs? I’m not sure how old of a monitor you got, but I remember all of my computers having very crisp pixels.
Resolution matters , en emulator may still be running at 640x480 vs the 240i a tv would have had