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LCD displays still don't match the responsiveness of clunky CRT screens (2019)

LCD displays have their merits, but they still don't match the responsiveness of clunky CRT screens.

"Today's premium-priced gaming LCDs are trying very hard to recapture CRT's major benefits—low latency, high refresh rates and reduced input lag—but as good as many of these screens are, for our money nothing beats a good old-fashioned cathode ray tube display for desktop gaming—not even the very best LCD screens on the market," Digital Foundry editor Richard Leadbetter wrote.Unfortunately, getting a CRT monitor that works well with modern PC games is a lot harder than buying a 4K LCD monitor on Amazon. Applying more voltage to the system generates more electrons, in turn causing each dot to emit more light.That's a lot to wrap your head around, but the thing to keep in mind is that the electron-to-photon exchange happens instantly. It also creates blurriness when there's a lot of motion happening across the screen.Raymond Soneira, the president of display research firm DisplayMate, has found that this issue even persists on panels with faster refresh rates than the usual 60 Hz.

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