They had terrific brightness. (At least until they started to wear out)
The resolution was a mixed bag. They couldn’t handle the resolutions we have today, But when you were running 800 by 600 on a 1600x1200 they looked pretty crisp. It was a problem on LCDs before they got their pixel counts up because they were driven purpose built for a given resolution and anything else was a hack.
Nowadays 800 by 600 on a 4K screen looks pretty decent.
The biggest problem we’re dealing with replacing CRTs with LCDs are the sharpness was crap so the content looked good soft. We have to throw shaders and all kinds of crazy stuff on ROMs to degrade the screen enough to make them look good. And then any light screen devices that use pixel scanning for location just don’t work because newer technology doesn’t work that way. The best in the light guns are going so far as to use camera sensors to detect location.
They had terrific brightness. (At least until they started to wear out)
The resolution was a mixed bag. They couldn’t handle the resolutions we have today, But when you were running 800 by 600 on a 1600x1200 they looked pretty crisp. It was a problem on LCDs before they got their pixel counts up because they were driven purpose built for a given resolution and anything else was a hack.
Nowadays 800 by 600 on a 4K screen looks pretty decent.
The biggest problem we’re dealing with replacing CRTs with LCDs are the sharpness was crap so the content looked good soft. We have to throw shaders and all kinds of crazy stuff on ROMs to degrade the screen enough to make them look good. And then any light screen devices that use pixel scanning for location just don’t work because newer technology doesn’t work that way. The best in the light guns are going so far as to use camera sensors to detect location.