Some old video games actually exploited the limitations of the CRT to do some really neat stuff like transparency and other effects that get lost.
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Making an accurate emulator isn’t impossible, but it is hard and processor intensive.
There are rules for speedrunning using an emulator, which require you to use a particular version of a particular emulator for your time to count. It will be flagged as run on an emulator rather than original hardware.
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Not to mention power consumption. CRT screens were energy hogs back in the day. The fact that modern monitors aren’t using less power is just that they are now bigger. (Though plasma screens really do use as much energy as CRT.)
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One small caveat:
Results may vary significantly, results assume displays are calibrated for energy saving performance.
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Yeah, my friend had that issue. Had a plasma TV that he realised consumed something like 300W+.
Changing to an LCD type made a noticeble dent in his power bill.
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Whenever something like this turns up I imagine someone who’s bought the world’s remaining supply of old tech from a smiling vendor at a bargain basement price in the fond belief that a market cornered is a market that’s going to make you rich, quick. And when they realise there’s a reason for its cheapness, the only thing they can do to minimise their crippling losses is to resort to an ad agency to crank up the good old nostalgia sales campaign.
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I’m surprised no one has mentioned the fact CRTs offer black, real black. When you look at black calibration pictures there are several bands at the very bottom right before “black”. Cheaper lcds blend this all together, same on the whites. Obviously the nicer the lcd the better this becomes, but you fighting aganist the physical design of an lcd to produce black. I know the AMOLED display in my Tab S3 looks great, now I just need that at 90".
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