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I mean some people are already getting nostalgic about CRTs for being so analog. And it's been what, only ~15 years since LCDs and other types of digital flat-panel displays started becoming cheap and widespread?



Part of the reason for using CRTs today is their analog characteristics, and part of it is because they're near-zero-latency by design.


The latency part is somewhat getting alleviated by higher refresh rate displays tho


I'm part of that group (I ever regretted breaking my beloved mitsu diamondtron[0]) but still the mainstream is massively about digital purity, beyond biological retina sampling and displaying .. in that era good luck talking about the "value" of imperfect media, it's like fighting a tsunami to me.

[0] to cope, I scavenged a few portable TVs from the 90s to toy with the small tubes.




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